No 10 accepts all recommendations in Southport attack inquiry, Mahmood says

First phase of inquiry identified multiple failings to prevent murders of three girls, which government will urgently' address

Downing Street has accepted all recommendations for changes made by an inquiry that found the Southport killings could have been prevented and identified fundamental failings", the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has said.

Mahmood said the government would do whatever is needed to protect the public" as she accepted the recommendations in full from the first phase of the Southport inquiry.