The prime minister said the government would change terrorism legislation to more effectively deal with a changing threat posed by lone killers.
In a statement at Downing Street on the Southport attacks that killed three girls last year, Starmer said: ‘We also see acts of extreme violence perpetrated by loners, misfits, young men in their bedroom, accessing all manner of material online, desperate for notoriety, sometimes inspired by traditional terrorist groups, but fixated on that extreme violence, seemingly for its own sake’.
He added: ‘if the law needs to change to recognise this new and dangerous threat, then we will change it and quickly’
