You, the British people, are being gaslit, says Matt Goodwin

Yesterday, Keir Starmer admitted that he knew the details about Axel Rudakubana’s background long before they came out.

But this is not consistent with his previous actions.

During the 2017 Finsbury Park terror attack, Starmer called it a terror attack before terrorism charges were announced.

He also did the same in the case of the London Bridge attack in 2017 and the Plymouth attack in 2019.

And of course after Southport he had no problem at all in deriding many people as “far right thugs” before they went to court and had their cases heard

Yesterday, he appealed to contempt of court laws for not releasing the information about Southport earlier.

But if it applies to Southport, why didn’t this apply to three other terror attacks, as well as those protests?

We’re now of course hearing reports that CPS pressured Merseyside Police not to release the suspect’s details.

But just to top it all off, the government now wants you to believe this was a case of knife-purchase laws not being strong enough.

You may remember when David Amess was murdered by an Islamist terrorist.

Parliamentarians tried to make the issue about online abuse.

Well, the same thing is happening now.

The government has fast-tracked tighter restrictions on online knife sales for under-18s, as if Amazon was to blame for Southport.

Writing in the Sun today, the Prime Minister called Axel Rudakubana, a two-click killer.

But the fact of the matter is that the system, the state, failed the victims of Southport, much like it failed the victims of Pakistani rape gangs.

It’s time for the obfuscation, the concealment, the cover-ups and the deflections to come to an end.

It’s time for the people in power to tell us the truth!