A pretty damning assessment of Starmers self preservation after the murders from one of the surviving victims grandfather.
Granddad of girl knifed in Southport says families were 'abandoned'
The grandfather of a girl who survived being stabbed by Axel Rudakubana yesterday demanded the sacking of everyone who failed to realise the deadly threat he posed.
In a powerful intervention, he claimed the Southport families were let down by the authorities meant to protect their daughters both before and after the July 29 atrocity.
Firstly in not doing more to stop the killer, whose obsession with violence and savagery had seen him referred to the Prevent anti-extremism programme three times.
And secondly in failing to divulge following his arrest that the Cardiff-born teenager was known to counter-terrorism police - and that deadly ricin was found in searches of his home following the attack.
He also angrily accused Sir Keir Starmer of 'choosing to protect himself' rather than allow the truth about the killer to come out earlier.
'I think that if, instead of doubling down on talking about the far right, he had come clean that this was a terrorist incident, things would have been different,' says the grandfather, who cannot be identified as all the surviving children have been granted anonymity.
'We were not looked after - we were pushed by the wayside.
'It became all about the riots and what happened to us was forgotten. We were abandoned.'
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