Yvette Cooper warns of misinformation 'stirring up division' after Southport stabbings

The home secretary delivered a statement to the House of Commons after visiting the scene in Southport where several children were stabbed at a dance workshop on Monday.

Yvette Cooper told MPs misinformation had already spread online about the identity of the attacker and warned 'those who do this for their own purposes risk undermining a crucial criminal investigation'. Misinformation has been spread on social media platforms by sources ranging from far-right activists to fake news websites. The police have only revealed that the attacker is a 17-year-old male. Three children were killed in the attack and several others and two adults are being treated in hospital.

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[qhnhoed]

Anyone who is capable of stabbing little children to death in this way should be known, whatever their age.

[Jos-zv]

Do you know how you deal with misinformation, you release the identity of the perpetrator 🤡

[patricklee]

No, yvette, its the stabbings and crimes that are stirring up division.

[daisybelle]

She's literally vile. She had no issue condemning the Manchester police force without all the facts..

[bassdasilva]

Look at those criminals telling us what to do

[richardaspinall]

Who has created division in our society and who covers it up with misinformation.

[annbrannigan]

Do you still intend to grant asylum to all who have landed here without permission, who we don't know anything about ?.

[invinciblegooner]

The only false information is from you lot 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[Budanevey]

Government policy is stirring up division...

[williamjohn]

It's not misinformation that stirs up hatred. It's killing young girls in the street that does that.

[GreatSageSunWukong]

This was a terrorist act treat it as such, every victim was female, don't try and brush that under the carpet and say "children" or "people"

[baileybuckley]

How dare these people tell us how to react...

[DarthCraigos]

What utter nonsense from the criminals in parliament.

[Beamish_lover]

Well why not tell us the details of the murderer so we can put all the rumours to bed?

[joelyoung]

Strange that it was ok for misinformation to stir up division last week.

[eviltaylor]

All it takes is one newspaper to grow a spine and end this.

[smudgermick]

This woman is a threat to our national security. She should be removed from the office of Home Secretary and replaced with someone who cares about keeping our citizens safe as is a government's first responsibility!

[DS]

Spreading misinformation? Did she not jump on the bandwagon condemning the police in Manchester the other day before the full video had come out??

[DavidJohnson-pdzl]

You mean you are not
going to deal with this,
and don’t want to upset immigrants, or tell us the
real truth

[Doughboy]

then why are the police been hiding the identity of the killer then?