and britannia wide open. and breaking news rachel reeves has made a great decision at last, because it looks as though she's thrown a net zero out of the window and put the economy first. but as you'd expect, not everyone's happy. look, especially not mr windmill himself, ed miliband. not for the first time in his life. he's choking on a bacon sandwich . choking on a bacon sandwich. because there are reports heathrow airport is set to expand. put that in your windmill and smoke it. and i'll be joined by a former environment secretary on that. all that to come. but first is your news headlines and it's sophia wenzler. >> martin. thank you. good evening. it'sjust >> martin. thank you. good evening. it's just gone. 7:00. these are your headlines. the home secretary has said public bodies completely failed to identify the terrible danger axel rudakubana posed as she announced a public inquiry into the southport attack. yvette cooper said the 18 year old, who

admitted carrying a knife over ten times before his deadly rampage, should have faced stronger intervention. she also revealed his case wasn't escalated despite three referrals to the prevent counter—terrorism scheme. rudiger barner has pleaded guilty to murdering three girls at a dance class, as well as charges of attempted murder, ricin production and possession of terrorist material. earlier, sir keir starmer warned of a new growing terror threat, with lone young men now responsible for carrying out extreme acts of violence. donald trump has begun his first full day back in office, arriving at the washington national cathedral for the post—inauguration day prayer service, the bishop took the opportunity to lecture the new president and jd. vance on immigration and the fear felt by many lgbtq+ families across the country, leading trump to say that the prayer service could have been better . after his have been better. after his inauguration yesterday, the new

president signed a range of executive orders to pull the us out of the world health organisation and declared a national emergency at the southern border. he also pardoned nearly 1600 people tied to the january 6th capitol riots, with some already walking free, including former proud boys leader henry enrique tarrio. in other news, a 36 year old man and a six year old girl have been found dead inside a house in scotland. police said officers made the discovery following a report of concern for a person in heyburn drive, west calder, at about 4 pm. yesterday. the force said the deaths are being treated as unexplained and post—mortem examinations will take place in due course. officers said their relatives are aware and are being supported by specialists. at least 66 people have been killed in a fire that engulfed a popular turkish ski resort hotel, forcing some people to

jump hotel, forcing some people to jump out of windows. at least 51 others have been injured in the blaze, which erupted in the early hours at the grand cartel hotel. emergency teams worked non—stop, with more than 260 personnel on site, and it took 12 hours to put the fire out, the country's justice minister said. four people have now been arrested, including the owner, and get ready for a wild weather weekend. storm eowyn is on the way and it's set to bring severe gales to the uk this friday. the met office has issued yellow wind warnings for northern and western scotland and northern ireland, with gusts of up to 80mph possible. expect power cuts, .travelchaos and localised cuts, .travel chaos and localised damage as a storm rolls in, accompanied by heavy rain and hill snow. it's all thanks to a clash between freezing arctic air and warmer atlantic conditions, shaking up the recent calm, chilly weather. those are the latest gb news

headlines. more in an hour. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> welcome to farage with me martin daubney. now the prime minister has moved with unusual speed to authorise a public inquiry into what drove axel rudakubana murderous rampage and whether it could have been prevented. but haven't we heard seriously all of this before? because lest we forget. after the 2017 london bridge attack, theresa may declared enough is enough, urging britain to confront islamist extremism. similarly, that man tony blair's 12 point plan after seven over seven aimed to tackle radicalisation. and yet, 20 years later, it remains almost entirely unimplemented. it seems

we're simply going round and round in circles. britain's struggle with extremism. and let's be specific. let's be honest, this is mainly a conversation about islamism. is still the elephant in the room. will this tragedy finally push our leaders to ask the hard questions? or will they once again shy away from asking those uncomfortable truths? well, joining me now in the studio to discuss this is the former conservative mp and the home office minister, kevin foster. and of course, my panel are the former conservative mp and minister sir ranil jayawardena. well done captain. and also the journalist and the former press secretary to paddy ashdown, the wonderful joe phillips. welcome all of you to the studio. kevin, let's start with you. we've heard all this before. successive governments promised the grass and nettle. they haven't. it's been a failure. and once again, we have murders on our streets. and now having an inquiry. what will the inquiry tell us? we don't know. the entire thing is a disgrace. children are dead. and it seems to me nobody is taking any

responsibility. >> well, the first thing an inquiry will need to ask is the points that will be jumping out of the page to any viewers at home this evening. you know, this man was referred to prevent a number of times, three times violent incidents at school. he downloaded an al—qaeda training manual and book. you know, this is clearly someone who was building up to a serious violent incident and then went on to commit an absolutely horrific crime and murders. and i don't think getting into the argument, i think it's been quite odd that it's been argued about whether it's been argued about whether it's he's a terrorist or not. well, you know, someone who downloads a terrorist training manual and cooks up ricin at his home and then goes and attacks innocent people, rather. sounds to me a bit. rather sounds to me like a terrorist. so there are lessons to be learned. i think one will be the operational side of this about those who directly engage with this individual when he was reported. the second would be, what are the policy issues that come with this? and let's be clear. lone wolf attacks aren't new. the idea today from the prime minister that lone wolf attacks are somehow new. the last two members of parliament to be

assassinated and murdered for theirjob assassinated and murdered for their job were both assassinated and murdered for theirjob were both killed by lone wolf actors. and if we really want to go back, the last prime minister to be asserted in 1812 was killed by a lone wolf actor. this has always been the biggest nightmare for any security forces. the idea of one person's there stewing themselves up, getting ready to attack innocent people. so why is the. >> keir starmer saying terrorism has changed? this is the new threat. it's not. >> it's not a new threat. lone wolf. lone wolf actors are there. we can even look at tragic incidents like the cheam shooting, where someone was clearly radicalised himself and then went out and committed an absolutely appalling crime. so lone wolves have always been there. they've always been a threat. so yes, it's not something new, but obviously there are lessons to learn. we should have them. i think it's absolutely right. an inquiry has been announced. i must say, it's interesting how quickly this inquiry has been announced compared to the grooming gangs, one that we should also be having. >> i want to ask you a question about this inquiry. i'm deeply suspicious of the veracity of them, of the point of them. i mean, we have inquiries when it seems to suit the government. an

inquiry to southport, no doubt, will throw prevent another bus. social services, the police, the schools, the parents, the community. anybody? probably. but the government in power at the time. and we didn't have an inquiry into the rape gangs because guess what? that one could bring the whole house of cards crashing down. all these inquiries worth the paper they're written. and we know there have been multiple interface failings. we know that he was driven by this islamist jihadi bible, and yet he's not an islamist terrorist. couldn't possibly be that. but you tell me, if this guy had watched, i don't know, a video of adolf hitler or tommy robinson and gone and killed you, do you think they'd be saying, oh, we can't rush into the causes? he'd be a right wing terrorist all day long. they're they're fudging around. what on earth is fudging around. what on earth