How do we fight terror now? - Andrew Marr and Jacob Davey on the Southport killer trial.
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🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Is Axel Rudakubana a terrorist, or just a very disturbed individual?
Hannah Barnes is joined by Andrew Marr and Jacob Davey of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue to discuss the trial of Alex Rudakabana, who has pled guilty to the murder of three young girls in Southport.
Keir Starmer has responded to the guilty plea and ordered a new public inquiry - but critics say the Prime Minister waited too long to act.
How should the government respond to the threat of self-radicalised attackers, and the changing nature of “terrorism”?
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| 0:56.7 | Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes, and this is Politics from the New Statesman, where every Thursday |
| 1:01.8 | we bring you the latest from Westminster and beyond. Today, I'm joined by our political editor, |
| 1:07.5 | Andrew Marr, and for a change, I'm delighted to say, by Jacob Davy, |
| 1:11.7 | the Director of Policy and Research at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. |
| 1:15.2 | Hello, both. |
| 1:17.8 | Jacob, we've asked you to join us because the biggest domestic story of the week is that of |
| 1:22.1 | Axel Ruder Cabana, who, rather unexpectedly actually, on the day one of his trial, |
| 1:26.8 | pleaded guilty to the murder of three |
| 1:28.7 | young girls at a dance class in Southport last summer and the attempted murder of eight more |
| 1:33.7 | children and two adults. Now we're recording this before the sentencing of Axel Ruder-Cabana, |
| 1:41.0 | but that guilty plea earlier in the week meant that plenty of new information |
| 1:45.6 | flooded into the public domain. He'd been referred to prevent the government scheme to stop |
| 1:50.6 | terrorist violence three times, we were told, in five years before the attack, for showing |
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