Southport hero calls on Starmer to address immigration fears

Following the tragic Southport stabbings last Monday, the BBC Today programme has interviewed the man who attempted to stop the attacker in his tracks – and was knifed in the leg as a result. Jonathan Hayes spoke about his harrowing experience of coming across the knifeman and then trying to disarm him.

‘When I opened the door, he stood there. He had the hoodie on. Most of his face was concealed,’ he told the Beeb. ‘We locked eyes on each other, and he looked pretty menacing.’ Hayes said he was ‘grateful’ to be alive after the incident, before offering up some advice on the riots to the Prime Minister.

The have-a-go-hero said he was ‘dismayed’ to hear Sir Keir Starmer’s tough talk about using the ‘full force of the law’ against demonstrators and insisted the PM needed to better understand immigration concerns:

‘I actually don’t think that the trouble on the Right has got anything at all to do with the Southport stabbings.