Prime Minister Keir Starmer will face Tory leader Kemi Badenoch at PMQs with possible questions expected on the state of Britain's finances and questions over the Southport murders

The prime minister has addressed the nation after the government announced an inquiry into state failings to prevent the Southport attack.

Sir Keir Starmer appealed for sympathy in a Downing Street press conference about the Southport killings. Yes, the focus was on the murdered children. Six-year-old Bebe, seven-year-old Elsie and Alice, nine, who died following a mass stabbing in the Merseyside seaside town last July.