Good Morning Britain sparked backlash with viewers (Image: ITV)
was met with backlash from viewers after Prime Minister addressed the nation about the Southport killings.
During Tuesday’s (January 21) broadcast, the for from Downing Street, which came after to murdering three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in July.
Home Secretary also announced an inquiry into the case, saying the country needed “independent answers” on Prevent and other agencies’ contact with the “extremely violent” Rudakubana and “how he came to be so dangerous”.
However, as Starmer’s speech ended, the Prime Minister was preparing to take questions from the crowd when returned to the studio to discuss the press conference.
This surprised viewers, including one who criticised it: “What a stupid move. Back to the studio when PMs questions are continuing. How many have turned over to the or Sky? Me for one!”
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Keir Starmer issued a press conference about the Southport failings (Image: Getty)
Another fumed: “Why have they gone back to the studio? He’s taking questions and they are missing it!! #GMB”
As a third questioned: “Not showing the questions? #gmb”
Instead of airing the questions posed to Starmer, Good Morning Britain returned for a discussion with presenters and and their guests.
They introduced former Chief Superintendent of the Met Police Dal Babu, commentator Andrew Pierce and former Labour MP Jonathan Ashworth.
Babu stated: It’s pretty shocking, we need to be very, very clear this was failure on a grand scale, failure that led to the murders of three innocent girls.
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Good Morning Britain returned to the studio after Keir Starmer’s speech (Image: ITV)
“We need to be brutally honest about that; I think we need to be very understanding of the Prime Minister’s commitment; he’s very, very clear, and he was clearly very angry.”
Babu continued: “He didn’t mince his words, he wants some action, he wants things to be done differently.”
“We had this individual going to a school with a hockey stick breaking somebody’s wrists, we had the same individual who then attempted to get a taxi armed with knives to go back to the school and was stopped.”
Susanna interjected: “A week before,” which Babu confirmed as he stated: “This is common sense.”