LABOUR MP James Frith has called for a review of the way social services have failed to detect and stop attacks like the one launched by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana.

In a discussion during PMQs Live on GB News, he said: “This isn’t just about accessing knives and I would actually take it to a bigger piece in answering the question about what’s happened.

“There’s a changing face of the risks of terrorism in this country, and the online hate, the radicalisation that is also being accessed by some of these loners and monsters that we’ve seen in this most recent of appalling attacks.

“It is a failure of the system, a failure of a joined up social services system that has repeatedly been warned and failed to act.

“I think for those of us that inherit the news story effectively of those appalling acts, we need to review those, those measures, those social services.

“We shouldn’t cast too much judgment, given that you can never know for sure as somebody that is reported will go on and do such an appalling act.

“But quite clearly, whether it’s an under-investment or a lack of scrutiny and oversight, a number of the social services have systemically failed to pick up this issue, and the worst has happened for these three girls and their families.

“Yes, let’s focus on making it harder to access knives. But let’s look at the system that effectively – it’s not complicit in the act, but is certainly unintentionally given permission for such acts to happen.

“And that’s a damning statement on our social services.”