Jess Phillips, the safeguarding minister, has agreed that people should lose their jobs if there were “individual failings” after the Southport killer was referred to an anti-terrorism scheme three times.
Axel Rudakubana, 18, was sentenced to a minumum of 52 years in prison after admitting the murder of three young girls at a dance class last July.
After his sentence, it emerged he had been referred to anti-terrorism scheme Prevent three times ahead of the murders.
A review into the programme is due to be published this week, and Ms Phillips was asked if people should lose their jobs over “monumental” failings.
She said: “I always think if there are individual failings then of course, but if there is a systematic flaw in the system then that is for governments to change.
“Now, that might be a systematic problem, it might be an individual one and we need to get to the bottom of that.”
The minister added that it was “very, very clear” that there were “state failures across the board” in the case of Rudakubana.
She said: “That’s why the government has announced a proper public inquiry to get to the bottom of not just what is wrong with Prevent but with all the instances the killer of those three beautiful little girls wasn’t stopped when there’s potential he could have.”
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