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The anti-woke speech that rocked Davos: Argentina's President Milei slams 'deeply wrong' gender and migration ideology - and says UK 'imprisons citizens for revealing crimes committed by Muslim migrants'
Argentina's president Javier Milei has used his speech to the World Economic Forum to slam 'woke ideology' and condemn Western governments and institutions as being 'colonized' by it.
The Argentine premier took aim at the WEF as he denounced it for promoting 'deeply wrong' ideas around gender ideology, feminism, climate change, mass migration and left-leaning politics in general.
He also singled out the United Kingdom in his wide-ranging speech, implying that it is 'imprisoning citizens for revealing aberrant, truly appalling crimes committed by Muslim migrants that the government wants to hide'.
The speech went on for half an hour and covered topics from the role of the European Union to terror attacks and abortion - but had one recurring theme throughout - the eradication of 'wokeism'.
The 54-year-old argued that what he called the 'woke mind virus' is an 'epidemic that must be cured and the cancer that must be eradicated.'
The Argentine leader praised other leaders he sees as likeminded, such as Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and El Salvador's Nayib Bukele.
'Slowly an international alliance has been formed of all those nations that want to be free and that believe in the ideas of freedom,' he said.
Turning his sights on the Davos conference which he was addressing, Milei said: 'I must say, forums like this one have been protagonists and promoters of the sinister agenda of 'wokeism' that is doing so much harm to the West.'
Argentina's President Javier Milei addresses the audience during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 23, 2025
He told the audience of global business and political A-listers: 'If we want to change, if we want to truly defend the rights of citizens, we first have to start by telling them the truth.
'And the truth is that there is something deeply wrong with the ideas that have been promoted in forums like this one.'
He said 'the mental virus of woke ideology' was 'the great epidemic of our time that must be cured. It is the cancer that must be removed'.
Among other things, he hit out at what he called 'invented' quotas created under the guise of diversity, which he claimed undermine the 'excellence' of public and educational institutions.
His comments on this come after his American ally Trump made good on a campaign pledge to sever diversity, equity and inclusion policies in the federal government and as Mark Zuckerberg's Meta announced the end of such programmes at the company.
Milei also said 'wokeism' was to blame for turning migration policies from those which focused on attracting foreign talent to ones which promote mass migration - 'not by national interest but by guilt.'
He described 'images of hordes of immigrants abusing, raping or killing European citizens' and declared that people did not question this for fear of being 'branded a racist'.
Taking aim at feminist beliefs, he claimed that women are valued more than men and also labelled abortion a 'bloody and murderous agenda'.
He hit out at the use of gender blockers in children, describing it as 'criminal ideology' and saying their victimhood is covered up in 'accusations of homophobia or transphobia and other inventions.'
The Argentine leader praised other leaders he sees as likeminded, such as Donald Trump ,and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (pictured)
'In its most extreme versions gender ideology constitutes simply as child abuse,' he argued.
'This is what Wokeism is all about. It is the result of the inversion of Western values,' Milei declared.
'Each of the pillars of our civilization was changed by a distorted version of itself through the introduction of various mechanisms of cultural succession,' he continued.
He concluded his speech by calling for the restoration of the Western values he felt had been lost.
'Today, just like 215 years ago, Argentina has broken its chains and invites — as our anthem says — all mortals of the world to hear the sacred cry: 'freedom, freedom, freedom',' Milei said.
'May the forces of Heaven be with us. Thank you all very much and long live freedom, dammit!'
Massive flood refilled an empty Mediterranean Sea millions of years ago
Five million years ago, one of the most spectacular events in Earth’s history unfolded as a massive flood refilled the Mediterranean Sea. This wasn’t a typical flood – it was a colossal surge of water that transformed a vast salt desert into the blue waters we know today.
The Zanclean Megaflood, a massive influx of water, ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis, a period during which the Mediterranean Sea had largely evaporated, leaving behind vast salt flats.
This transformative flood, occurring between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, refilled the basin in a dramatic and rapid event, challenging long-held scientific theories.
An international team of researchers, including scientists from the University of Southampton, has now identified a series of geological features in Southeast Sicily that point to the reality of this megaflood.
The findings offer the most detailed and convincing evidence yet of one of the largest floods in Earth’s history.
End of the Messinian Salinity Crisis
Before the Zanclean Megaflood, the Mediterranean was unrecognizable compared to today. During the Messinian Salinity Crisis, the Mediterranean Sea became isolated from the Atlantic Ocean.
Without a constant influx of water, it began to evaporate under the intense heat, leaving behind thick salt deposits and transforming the region into an arid wasteland. The loss of water reshaped the entire landscape, creating vast salt plains and deep canyons.
For years, scientists believed that the Mediterranean refilled gradually over approximately 10,000 years. This view suggested that small, sustained breaches in natural barriers allowed water to trickle back into the basin, slowly restoring the sea.
However, in 2009, researchers discovered an erosion channel stretching from the Gulf of Cadiz to the Alboran Sea. This discovery suggested that the refilling was not a slow process but rather a single, massive flood event lasting between two and sixteen years.
The latest research, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, provides further confirmation that the refilling of the Mediterranean was anything but gradual. Instead, it was a catastrophic event of unimaginable scale, reshaping the Mediterranean landscape in a matter of years.
Massive flood in the Mediterranean
“The Zanclean megaflood was an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon, with discharge rates and flow velocities dwarfing any other known floods in Earth’s history. Our research provides the most compelling evidence yet of this extraordinary event,” noted Dr. Aaron Micallef, lead author of the study and a researcher at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
To understand just how enormous this flood was, researchers estimate that it had a discharge rate of between 68 and 100 Sverdrups (Sv), with one Sv equal to one million cubic meters of water per second.
By comparison, the combined discharge of all modern rivers on Earth is approximately one Sverdrup. This means the Zanclean Megaflood involved an amount of water far exceeding anything seen in recorded history.
The force of this flood was enough to carve deep channels, erode solid rock formations, and transport vast amounts of sediment across the region. Scientists now believe that this event fundamentally altered the geography of the Mediterranean, leaving behind geological scars that persist to this day.
Flood clues beneath the Mediterranean
To uncover the full impact of the Zanclean Megaflood, researchers examined over 300 streamlined ridges across the Sicily Sill, a submerged land bridge that once divided the Mediterranean’s western and eastern basins. These ridges provide clear evidence of large-scale, turbulent water flow.
“The morphology of these ridges is compatible with erosion by large-scale, turbulent water flow with a predominantly north easterly direction. They reveal the immense power of the Zanclean Megaflood and how it reshaped the landscape, leaving lasting imprints on the geological record,” explained study co-author Professor Paul Carling of the University of Southampton.
By studying these ridges, scientists found that they were topped with a layer of rocky debris. This debris consisted of material eroded from the ridge flanks and surrounding regions, indicating it had been deposited suddenly and with immense force.
Importantly, this sediment layer aligns with the transition from the Messinian to the Zanclean period, providing further confirmation that the flood occurred at this critical juncture.
Role of W-shaped channel
A crucial piece of evidence came from seismic reflection data, a technique that uses sound waves to create images of subsurface geological formations. This method revealed a previously unknown “W-shaped channel” on the continental shelf east of the Sicily Sill.
This channel, carved deep into the seabed, appears to have played a vital role in directing floodwaters toward the Noto Canyon, a deep underwater valley in the eastern Mediterranean.
The shape and location of the channel suggest it functioned like a giant funnel, helping to transport the enormous volume of water into the deeper sections of the sea.
Computer models developed by the research team simulated the likely behavior of the floodwaters. The results showed that as the flood progressed, water flow intensified, reaching speeds of up to 32 meters per second (72 miles per hour).
This powerful current deepened channels, eroded rock formations, and transported sediment over vast distances.
Lasting impact of the megaflood
Dr. Micallef highlights the significance of these findings, not just for understanding the Mediterranean’s past but for studying large-scale floods on Earth and other planets.
“These findings not only shed light on a critical moment in Earth’s geological history but also demonstrate the persistence of landforms over five million years. It opens the door to further research along the Mediterranean margins.”
The research highlights the long-lasting impact of the Zanclean Megaflood. Even millions of years later, its effects remain visible in the Mediterranean’s underwater topography.
Understanding how such catastrophic floods shape landscapes can provide valuable insights into similar events that may have occurred on Mars or other planetary bodies.
New chapter in Earth’s history
The Zanclean Megaflood is now recognized as one of the most significant flooding events in Earth’s history.
This research, supported by the National Geographic Society, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, redefines how scientists understand the Mediterranean’s transformation.
By combining geological surveys, numerical modeling, and seismic imaging, researchers have reconstructed a detailed picture of this catastrophic event.
The findings challenge previous assumptions and open new avenues for exploring past megafloods and their role in shaping the planet.
How the CIA and Ukrainian intelligence secretly forged a deep partnership
The partnership helped Ukraine defend itself and gave the U.S. key intelligence.
KYIV -- Lt. Gen. Valeriy Kondratyuk had come to Washington, D.C., with a mission: to persuade American intelligence agencies to trust him.
It was 2015, a year after Russia had seized Crimea and started a war in eastern Ukraine. It was still six years before Russia would move to its full-scale invasion, but the front-line in eastern Ukraine still smoldered amid a poorly observed ceasefire agreement. General Kondratyuk was the head of Ukraine's military intelligence agency. Convinced Ukraine’s future was with the West, he wanted the United States to help strengthen his agency to better hold off Russia. But so far he had found American intelligence wary.
To change that, he believed he needed a bold gesture. That was why his luggage was stuffed with top-secret Russian military documents.
Kondratyuk said he brought the documents to meetings with senior American intelligence officials in Washington.
"I was like, 'Holy s---!'" a former U.S. official told ABC News. "And he's like, "'Yes, we have a gift.'"
Kondratyuk's visit to Washington was part of a remarkable story: how since 2014 the CIA and Ukraine's intelligence services secretly forged a deep partnership, transforming them from former Cold War enemies into one of the U.S. agency's most trusted partners.
This account of the partnership is based on interviews with former U.S. and Ukrainian intelligence officials, including Kondratyuk, with knowledge of how it developed. Some of the officials have been granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
The partnership, according to those former officials, has been essential to Ukraine defending itself against the Kremlin. It also gave the U.S. an extraordinary window into Russia’s military and its political decision-making, thanks to Ukraine's former closeness to Moscow.
"They went from being zero to one of our most important partners, up in the realm of the Brits," a former U.S. official told ABC News. "Their access was so significant. Here was the best friend of the Russians for many, many years. They knew things we just, frankly, had no idea of."
The partnership saw the CIA help Ukraine to rebuild its Main Directorate of Intelligence, known by its acronym HUR, which has become renowned for its audacious operations. The CIA eventually directed millions of dollars in funding to help train and equip Ukrainian intelligence officers, and to construct facilities, including around a dozen secret forward-operating bases on the border with Russia. The two services also began conducting joint operations together around the world, the highest level of trust for intelligence services, according to the former U.S. officials.
"It's unprecedented," Sir Richard Dearlove, the former chief of Britain's MI6 intelligence agency, told ABC News.
Some of the former American and Ukrainian officials said they were speaking out now because they believed it was vital for American lawmakers to understand the benefits the partnership that Kondratyuk first helped build has brought to the U.S. as well as Ukraine.
"This is something that the American Congress needs to know. What they have done as a service -- and what Valeriy [Kondratyuk] has done personally -- has saved the U.S. taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars. Maybe even billions of dollars," said a former U.S. official.
Once Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022, CIA intelligence sharing, in particular targeting information, became crucial for Ukraine. American-trained Ukrainian special forces also caught advancing Russian troops by surprise, according to current and former Ukrainian and U.S. officials.
"It was ground-breaking how we rebuilt that service. And the payoff came in the early days of the war," said one of the former U.S. officials. "The HUR special operations guys were able to hit the Russians hard and hit them in ways that they didn't expect. And that was the result of the years of investment from the agency in particular,” said the official.
Asked to comment for this article, the CIA referred to remarks by the agency’s director William Burns during an on-stage interview in October.
“I’m really proud of the record of the agency” Burns said in the interview with The Cipher Brief. “I'm proud of the work that CIA has done with our colleagues in the intelligence community to help the president build a strong coalition of countries to support Ukraine, to help the Ukrainians defend themselves.”
'Let's help the Ukrainians be Ukrainians'
The origin of the CIA partnership traces back to 2014, nearly a decade before Russia's full-scale invasion, amid Ukraine's "Revolution of Dignity."
In February 2014, months of mass protests and violent clashes with security services culminated with Ukraine's Kremlin-backed president, Viktor Yanukovych, fleeing to Russia.
The country’s new pro-Western government appointed Valentyn Nalyvaichenko as head of Ukraine’s Security Service, the SBU. Barricades still circled central Kyiv, and government buildings were occupied by triumphant protesters.
Nalyvaichenko arrived at his new agency's offices in Kyiv to find them empty. Much of the SBU's leadership had fled to Russia and Crimea.
"I was absolutely shocked," Nalyvaichenko told ABC News in an interview in Kyiv. "Nobody in. My predecessor fled to Crimea. His first deputy fled to Russia. It was totally compromised and destroyed," said Nalyvaichenko.
Even worse, he said, officers from Russia's FSB intelligence service had been working directly inside the SBU's cybersecurity department. They had taken databases listing Ukraine's military and security officers with them.
On the spot, Nalyvaichenko said, he decided that night to call the U.S. and British embassies directly from his abandoned office, and to ask for help.
The Americans and British quickly agreed, according to Nalyvaichenko, setting up a training program in combat tactics for SBU officers. That was the beginning.
"We could feel a palpable change on the Ukrainian side," said a former U.S. official. "There were those of us on the agency side who were like, 'Hey, this is something to exploit. We need to change with it. Let's help, you know, the Ukrainians be Ukrainians.'"
'Man, this is legit'
But initially, the U.S. was cautious, knowing that Ukrainian intelligence was deeply penetrated by Russia. The military intelligence agency, HUR, in particular, was seen as an unpromising candidate for collaboration.
That began to change with the appointment of Kondratyuk as head of HUR in 2015. He took it upon himself to convince the Americans to help him rebuild his agency. First, he reached out to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, but he found they remained too wary. So he turned to the CIA.
"Convincing them that we were worth it, it was not easy," said Kondratyuk. "So I decided to go ahead, without receiving anything, but simply giving."
That was how Kondratyuk decided to surprise American officials with the trove of Russian documents gathered by Ukrainian intelligence during the trip in 2015. The documents he brought included top-secret plans of Russian weapons, military capabilities.
The move worked. CIA analysts began vetting the intelligence provided by Ukraine, still cautious it could have been maliciously supplied by Russia. But the U.S. confidence in the material rapidly grew.
"He decided that the West is our future. So he essentially started opening the files," said a former U.S. official. "And, you know, as this stuff adds up and as it checks out, people are going like, 'Man, this is legit.'"
The partnership was also boosted by the arrival in Kyiv of a new CIA station chief, who developed a close relationship with Kondratyuk and believed the Ukrainians offered a historic opportunity for the CIA.
The new station chief, who had a white beard, was affectionately dubbed "Santa" by the Ukrainians.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's seizure of Crimea, combined with his ambitious modernization program for Russia's armed forces, had to change how the U.S. government viewed Moscow. Officers within the CIA began arguing that the U.S. needed a more robust effort to understand Russia’s military, fearing Crimea could be a dry run for a larger war.
The intelligence the Ukrainians were providing bolstered their arguments for supporting them. They were sharing information on Russian decision-making, classified designs for new Russian weapon systems, electronic warfare technology, as well as their order of battle, the former U.S. officials said.
"The Ukrainians were providing us with the kind of intelligence that we could show it to our superiors and say, 'Hey, they're earning this. This isn't a handout,'" said one of the former U.S. officials.
"In the end of the day, we needed the Ukrainians as much as they needed us on Russia," said the former official.
‘Operation Goldfish’
From 2016, the collaboration picked up speed. The CIA started providing secure communications technology, as well as training to Ukrainian officers in combat and espionage tactics. Ukrainian officers were brought to a European country for field training with officers from the CIA and Britain's MI6, according to Kondratyuk. The training included how to operate as a case officer in Russia and in occupied Ukraine.
"Secure communications, tradecraft, just basic street stuff," said a former U.S. official. "Because these guys heretofore had been trained using the old Soviet and Russian intelligence methods."
The CIA also eventually helped Ukraine equip a dozen forward-operating bases along the Russian border, from where the Ukrainian officers gathered intelligence, monitoring Russian communications and sometimes launching covert operations, according to Kondratyuk and former U.S. officials.
Hanging over the project always was the risk of Russian infiltration. Even after Ukraine's independence, Ukraine and Russia's spy services had remained deeply entwined, Many older officers had been trained in Moscow and some even remained close friends with their former Russian comrades. That closeness was both an asset and a liability.
To guard against Russian penetration, Kondratyuk compartmentalized new teams within HUR, recruiting for them only officers under 30, with no memory of the Soviet Union and who only knew an independent Ukraine.
Such officers made up a new commando unit trained by the CIA, called Unit 2245, that would become known for its audacious operations behind Russian lines and overseas, according to Kondratyuk. An officer from the unit, Kyrylo Budanov, is now the head of HUR.
The CIA and Ukraine also established a training program, called "Operation Goldfish". The name derived, Kondratyuk said, from a post-Soviet joke about an untrustworthy Russian-speaking fish.
The program trained Ukrainians to pose as Russians, not only in Russia but in third countries around the world in joint operations with the CIA. The Ukrainians were able to pass as Russians, creating remarkable opportunities for access and recruitment, former Ukrainian and U.S. officials said.
The speed the partnership developed at was exceptional, the former U.S. officials said
"It was a magical time,” said a former U.S. official. “We went from analytical exchanges to raw information exchanges to training. I think at the end of that year, we were starting joint operations. That usually takes a decade or more. And we did it in one year."
'So many red lines'
But, even as the partnership grew rapidly, White House officials under the Obama administration -- and later the Trump and Biden -- remained wary, worried the collaboration could provoke Russia, according to Kondratyuk and former U.S. officials.
The Administration’s national security leaders wanted the partnership to focus on intelligence gathering and the CIA was forbidden from assisting the Ukrainians in conducting lethal or sabotage operations targeting Russia, the ex-officials said.
The restrictions frustrated the Ukrainians. Convinced Russia was already preparing for a larger invasion, Kondratyuk and others pushed to conduct sabotage operations into occupied Crimea and into Russia itself, with the aim of pre-positioning explosives for example. Such plans horrified the Obama administration, which demanded the Ukrainians not go through with them, former U.S. and Ukrainian officials said.
"We always had to you know respect those red lines. But they hated that we had so many red lines," said a former U.S. official.
In 2016, without informing the Americans, Kondratyuk sent the U.S.-trained Unit 2245 on a mission to Crimea to plant explosives at a Russian helicopter base. The mission went disastrously awry, resulting in a gun battle with Russian special forces, reportedly killing several, and prompting Putin to publicly threaten retaliation.
The mission outraged the Obama White House. Joe Biden, then Vice President, called Ukraine's president Petro Poroshenko, to express the administration's unhappiness. Biden told him it had caused a "gigantic problem" and warned Poroshenko "it cannot come close to happening again," according to audio from the call that was later leaked by a pro-Russian Ukrainian MP.
The U.S. anger lost Kondratyuk his position as HUR chief. The partnership with the CIA, however, continued.
A first line of defense
When Russia invaded in 2022, the Biden administration lifted many of the restrictions on the CIA's operations in Ukraine, according to current and former U.S. officials.
CIA officers were authorised to remain in Ukraine as Russia attacked. They were still not permitted to directly kill Russians, but they were now authorized to assist Ukraine with targeting information.
As Russian columns advanced over the border, CIA-trained HUR special forces units, operated behind the lines, sending intelligence on Russian troop movements and attacking them. Ukrainian agents had also planted explosives on train lines and logistics points and left weapons caches inside Russia and occupied Ukraine.
"All these guys were the first line of our defense, which met Russia in the first day of invasion," said Kondratyuk.
'Just Russian propaganda'
Putin has publicly long insisted Ukraine is controlled by the CIA and was becoming a beachhead for NATO forces, using the claims as justification for his invasion. Some have alleged the CIA partnership with Ukrainian intelligence was a provocation to Putin, giving him a pretext for the war.
Kondratyuk, who arrived in Washington all those years ago with luggage full of secrets, dismisses those claims, describing them as Russian propaganda. Putin, he said, invaded Ukraine because he wanted to dominate it.
"This is just Russian propaganda, manipulation in order to somehow justify this inhuman and terrible invasion of another country," he said. "Our cooperation did not provoke. It only strengthened our ability to resist Russian aggression."
Nalyvaichenko, the former SBU chief, who is now a member of parliament, said Ukrainians had sought support from the U.S. because they knew it was the best chance to retain their independence from Russia.
"We have only two options: for us to be in Russia, being dissolved, occupied with the KGB back," he said. "The other option is to become a democratic country, with democratic special services. We made our choice."
Yvette Cooper insisted she was 'keen' to reveal terror links of the Southport killer today amid more claims of a 'cover-up'.
The Home Secretary was grilled on why the government was not more transparent over the Axel Rudakubana case as she faced the Commons.
Her Tory shadow Chris Philp warned that stonewalling on the basis there was an investigation going on would no longer 'cut it' in an era of social media.
The clashes in the House came after Keir Starmertold a press conference in Downing Street that people were right to 'demand answers' over 'failings'.
He confirmed he knew about the details 'as they were emerging'.
Sir Keir said it was a 'devastating moment in our history' and must be a 'line in the sand' for Britain.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was grilled on why the government was not more transparent over the Axel Rudakubana case as she faced the Commons
Merseyside Police today issued this mugshot of Axel Rudakubana, 18, of Banks, Lancashire, after he pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to all 16 counts he was charged with
The Tories and Reform said there were 'serious questions' about the transparency of government information in the wake of the killings.
Laying out details of the public inquiry in the Commons this afternoon, Labour Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said it was 'unbearable' that action might have prevented the attack.
She told MPs: 'That's a total disgrace and it must change. So, we will bring in stronger measures to tackle knife sales.'
The PM told a press conference in Downing Street that people were right to 'demand answers' over 'failings' in the case of Axel Rudakubana
Labour's Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood (left) and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper (right). Labourites are giving a masterclass in lies, deceit, and spinning the agenda away from the truth of the threat from Muslim immigrants towards their own political objects, such as censorship and knife control.
Rudakubana pleaded guilty yesterday to murdering the three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in July.
It has emerged that he was referred three times to the counter-terrorism programme Prevent, amid concerns over his fixation with violence.
But despite this and contact with other state agencies, the authorities failed to stop the attack which claimed the lives of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven.
As well as the three murders, Rudakubana admitted 10 counts of attempted murder, possession of a knife, production of a biological toxin, ricin, and possession of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing to commit acts of terrorism. The charges relating to the possession of ricin and the al Qaida training manual were not made public for three months after the teenager's arrest.
In the Commons, Mr Philp said: 'On October 29 Rudakubana was charged with possessing the ricin and the terror manual, that was then made public. So, if it can be made public in October, without risking prejudice of the murder trial, it follows that it could have been made public in August, without prejudicing that same trial.
'Background facts on other cases over the years have been made public after arrest and before trial without prejudice, and the shields relating to two of those cases are in this chamber. So why did the Prime Minister not make public some of this background information in August when he knew it, when later disclosure of that information in October demonstrated such disclosure could be made without prejudice?'
Sir Keir said: 'No words come anywhere close to expressing the brutality and horror in this case.'
'Every parent in Britain will have had the same thought. It could have been anywhere, it could have been our children, but it was Southport. It was Bebe, six years old. Elsie, seven. Alice, nine.'
Directly addressing the cover-up claims, the PM said: 'Yes I knew the details as they were emerging '
He said: 'Yes of course I was kept up to date with the facts as they emerged.'
Asked if he viewed the killings as an act of terrorism he insisted it was an act of 'extreme violence clearly intended to terrorise'.
Following Rudakubana's guilty pleas, Sir Keir described the 18-year-old as 'vile and sick', and said there were 'grave questions to answer' on how the state 'failed' to protect the three girls.'
The PM added: 'Britain will rightly demand answers.'
As well as the three murders, Rudakubana admitted to 10 counts of attempted murder, possession of a knife, production of a biological toxin, ricin, and possession of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing to commit acts of terrorism.
The terrorism offence relates to a PDF file entitled Military Studies In The Jihad Against The Tyrants, The Al Qaeda Training Manual.
He is also understood to have possessed numerous other documents on violent subjects, including Amerindian Torture And Cultural Violence.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage insisted he had been 'right all along' when he claimed in the summer that information had been withheld from the public.
Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said there were many questions that 'remain unanswered about what went wrong'.
Welcoming the announcement of a public inquiry, he said: 'We also need to know who in Government knew what and when, as well as why the authorities may have withheld some information from the public.'
Mr Philp told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: 'There is quite a lot you can put into the public domain without prejudicing the judicial proceedings.
'In previous incidents, we've seen more information being put out and Jonathan Hall drew attention to the risks of not putting out information, it undermines trust in justice, but it also creates a void.
'So, I think these are legitimate questions. I think it's important the inquiry looks at those questions as well as what happened before this appalling incident.'
Police officers at Rudakubana's home on Old School Close in Banks, Lancashire, last October
'I think it's just important the inquiry looks at all of this, gets to the truth both about what happened beforehand, but critically also the Government's response afterwards, and what they knew when and whether they should have put more information into the public domain.
'It appears they withheld information about the perpetrator, potentially, on CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) advice.
'William Shawcross has raised questions over that, saying that if you leave a void, then speculation fills it, and William Shawcross is obviously an expert lawyer, and also says there's quite a lot you can say about these incidents afterwards.
'But clearly in this case, the Government, it appears, didn't share information which they had in their possession.'
Rudakubana's father Alphonse moved to the UK from Rwanda in 2002.
The Crime Reporters Association complained to the Director of Public Prosecutions about the Crown Prosecution Service seeking to 'gag' Merseyside Police and instructing officers to 'stay silent' about the case as riots broke out last summer.
The CRA said the CPS had sought to prevent officers revealing details about Rudakubana's Muslim religion.
Rudakubana, had been expelled from high school for carrying out an attack on other pupils with a hockey stick.
At the age of 13, he was suspended for bringing a knife into school and wielding it at other pupils, causing him to be restrained by a teacher.
On another occasion, pupils filmed him attacking a teacher during a lesson, and having to be restrained by three classmates.
Details of an attempted high school attack on July 22 – a week before his murderous rampage in Southport – can only now be revealed, as Rudakubana faces the equivalent of a life sentence for murdering the three girls and 10 other attempted murders.
He was branded 'generational evil' by professionals seeking to cover up his Muslim identity, after his expulsion from school over his obsession with genocidal killers and bloody dictators.
In the months before last July's attack, police were regularly in attendance at his family's £170,000 three-bedroom terraced house in a quiet village outside Southport, in support of social workers, due to the risk he posed.
'Rudakubana rang Childline when he was 13 to say he was going to bring a knife into Range High School' a source said.
'They immediately raised the alarm and he was immediately excluded from school.'
But around a fortnight later he sneaked back onto the school grounds armed with a hockey stick, to attack children who he felt had wronged him. He had put the names of those children on the hockey stick.
Former pupils said one boy suffered a broken wrist.
Police were called after the incident in December 2019 and Rudakubana was later given a ten-month referral order by a youth court.
After the knife threat and then the hockey stick attack he became obsessed with the most horrific violence, eventually culminating in the attack on the dance studio.
A video showing Rudakubana being restrained by fellow pupils at Range High seen by the Mail showed him trying to attack one of the children he accused of bullying him.
'He became obsessed with wars, conflicts, genocides and the most appalling atrocities.
'That's how he came to be referred to Prevent and counter-terrorism.
He became uncontrollably evil.
'He tried to attack his old school a week before the dance studio attack. He booked a taxi to take him to Range High School but his dad stopped him from going.
'Social workers who visited him always brought their own security,' a source said.
'It was felt that for their own safety it was better for them to have someone to keep them safe because they were so worried about what he was capable of.'
The attack on his former school would have been Britain's first high school mass-killing.
On the day of the killings of the 3 girls, Rudakubana donned the identical outfit he had worn a week earlier, with hood pulled up over his head and face covered by a surgical mask.
Leaving his home at 11.10am, and armed with the same fearsome blade, he then booked a taxi to take him to the Ms Lucas's sell-out dance event.
Within half an hour, two children, Elsie Dot Stancombe, aged seven, and Bebe King, six, were dead, nine more children and two adults left fighting for their lives and dozens more lives were ruined – while Rudakubana was under arrest.
One of the critically-injured children, Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, died in hospital early the next morning.
Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, one of the three children killed in the knife attack in Southport
Bebe King, six, who was also killed in the knife attack at The Hart Space in Southport
Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, was among the three little girls killed in the attack in Southport
Rudakubana was 'obsessed' with sociopolitical history focusing on the worst atrocities of the 20th century.
'It was all he would talk about, all he wanted to read about,' said a source who worked with him.
'Just as some children are fixated on football, they know all the players, all their stats, he was the same about genocidal killers and bloody dictators.
'If you wanted to know about the IRA's killing campaign or Colonel Gaddafi's brutal regime, Rudakubana could tell you all about it.
'He collected books and literature and read up on it obsessively. The nastier it was, the more interesting he found it.
Genocide in Rwanda was part of his obsession with violence.
'But the Rwanda genocide was just one of many conflicts that he was fixated by.
'It was his fascination with mass murder and atrocities which fuelled his obsession with carrying out a horrific attack and killing himself.
He just wanted to kill as many people as possible.
But experts dismissed his case as they were assured that he was already getting help from other services, including mental health services.
'The shock of someone so evil living in the heart of the community is going to take a long, long time for everyone in the Southport area to comprehend.'
A prison van containing Axel Rudakubana arriving at Liverpool Crown Court
A heavy police presence outside Liverpool Crown Court for Rudakubana's appearance
His father, Alphonse Rudakubana, was originally from Rwanda, a country that suffered a deadly genocide in the early 1990s, and moved to the UK in 2002.
When Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer visited to pretend to pay his respects the day after the stabbing, there were hostile shouts of: 'How many more Starmer? When are you going to do something?'
Rudakubana's murderous rampage left the nation stunned.
'We've been denied the truth': Farage accuses Starmer of a Southport cover-up as it's finally revealed that Axel Rudakubana was referred to a counter-terrorism programme THREE times
Nigel Farage claimed authorities engaged in a 'gigantic cover-up' over the Southport child murders today, as it emerged the killer had been cleared by counter-extremism experts three times.
The Reform leader lashed out at Sir Keir Starmer and police, saying the public had been 'denied the truth' about Axel Rudakubana's motives and background.
Authorities missed several attempts to stop Rudakubana before he murdered three children and attempted to murder eight other youngsters and two adults in Southport last summer, when he was aged just 17.
The Mail has learnt that authorities knew of his disturbing interest in a school massacre as far back as 2019.
In 2019 he was referred to the Government's de-radicalisation scheme Prevent on the basis that he had been researching on a school computer for information about the killing of children in school shootings.
The Guardian reported he was also referred twice in 2021 after viewing material about the 2017 London terror attack.
Clacton MP Mr Farage, who is in Washington for Donald Trump's inauguration, said his party would demand Home Secretary Yvette Cooper explain to MPs why his terror links were not revealed sooner.
'I asked that question 24 hours after the murders. I said why are we not being told the truth? Was this man known to the authorities? We were met with a complete wall of silence,' the Reform leader said.
The Reform leader lashed out at Sir Keir Starmer and police, saying the public had been 'denied the truth' about Axel Rudakubana's motives and background
'The Prime Minister and the Home Secretary refused to engage, Liverpool police refused to engage.
'There was nothing about what I asked that would have in any way threatened contempt of court. This is basic background information that the public was entitled to.
'I was accused by mainstream media publications and senior politicians of stoking and encouraging the riots, when actually the riots were happening because of the vacuum of information.'
He added: 'I think that the Government are responsible for the most astonishing cover-up. I think that we need an apology from the Home Secretary and an explanation as to why we have been denied the basic truth.'
Asked if he would be raising this in the Commons, Mr Farage replied: 'We will, as a party, table an urgent question on this. Absolutely.'
Tory party leader Kemi Badenoch said: ‘We will need a complete account of who in Government knew what and when. The public deserves the truth.’
His guilty plea is likely to raise pressure on Prevent to explain how he slipped through the cracks, engaging in a horrific crime and sparking a summer of protests across the UK.
The Government announced emergency security for mosques, big Labour supporters.
It can only now be reported that teachers had concerns about Axel's behaviour.
Teachers were concerned about his violence towards others.
Rudakubana also admitted production of a biological toxin, ricin,
The ricin, a deadly poison was found during searches of the home which he shared with his parents
Axel Rudakubana's ricin 'KILLED my cat': Neighbour of Southport child killer claims teen's stash of poison caused beloved pet to have seizure and die
A neighbour of the Southport killer claims his ricin hoard poisoned her cat – and the police lied to her about the deadly discovery.
Caroline McDonald said CID officers called at her home to say her cat, Jo-Jo, had entered Axel Rudakubana's family home and back garden as they searched for the poison.
Within hours, her pet had suffered a seizure and died the next day after vets feared he had been poisoned.
Caroline emailed the police asking if any harmful substances had been found at the suspect's property, and the next day a police inspector called at her house stating nothing dangerous had been found.
Rudakubana, 18, was later charged with terror offences after an Al-Qaeda training manual and ricin were found at his home.
Today he pleaded guilty to production of the deadly biological toxin.
Speaking out, Caroline told MailOnline: 'The police have lied to my face. I am livid.
'They told me nothing harmful had been found at the house despite officers going in and out of the house wearing full hazmat suits.
'I heard the officers saying, 'only 50 minutes exposure at any one time', and then when they came out of the house, they had to shower down.
'They were all wearing full breathing apparatus.'
Caroline McDonald said CID officers called at her home to say her cat, Jo-Jo (pictured), had entered Axel Rudakubana's family home and back garden as they searched for the poison
Within hours, her pet had suffered a seizure and died the next day after vets feared he had been poisoned
An officer knocked at Caroline's door with eight-year-old Jo-Jo on August 29 last year – the first day of searching for ricin.
Caroline said: 'CID called to tell me my cat had got into the forensic tent (in the back garden) and possibly into the house. Officers were wearing full apparatus equipment, and my cat got in.
'When my cat came back home, he was a little out of sorts. Then his breathing became shallow and later had a seizure. We rushed him to the vet because he was foaming at the mouth.
'The vet said she suspected poisoning and there was nothing she could do other than put him to sleep.
'I sent an email to the police on August 30, asking to know what they had found.
'An inspector then came to my house and told me there was no toxic chemicals in that house, there was no poison and it was impossible that my cat could have been poisoned at that property.
'Then a few weeks later, Chief Constable Chief Constable Serena Kennedy announced Axel had been charged with producing ricin.'
Caroline added: 'The police knew that there were chemicals in that house but didn't inform the residents of the threat.
'When the police were washing everything down, all the water was running into my garden. The chances are my cat has eaten the grass that has contained ricin and that has killed him.
'I no longer have the cat so I can't prove this but I am livid.
'What I do know is my healthy cat had got into that house and 24 hours later he is dead.'
Caroline has since demanded an explanation from the Independent Office of Police Complaints.
She said: 'The police have hidden what they have found from us. I do not expect to be told everything but do expect not to be lied to.
'If we had been warned about any potential health dangers, we would have taken precautions and kept the cats inside.
'If we had been told of the threat, Jo-Jo would still be alive.'
A spokesman for Merseyside Police said: 'We can confirm we have received a complaint from a member of the public regarding the death of a cat on Old School Close.
'Specialist officers completed an extensive search at an address on Old School Close following the murders of three children in Southport on Monday, July 29.
'The complaint will now be investigated by Merseyside Police's Professional Standards Department. As a complaint has been received it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time.'
How Axel Rudakubana's parents are linked to the Rwandan genocide - from his father's army experience during 1994 ethnic killings to connections to the current ruling party
Southport killer Axel Rudakubana was personally linked through his parents to the Rwandan genocide, an event that is said to have fascinated him.
Rudakubana was 'absolutely obsessed' with genocide, one official was quoted as saying, adding that the subject was 'all he wanted to talk about'. Documents relating to the atrocity were found in his family home.
The killer has a connection to the genocide in Rwanda through his parents, who were both Tutsi and fled the country following the outbreak of mass killings by the Hutu-dominated regime.
His taxi driver father, Alphonse, fought with the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA), an armed force that fought the Hutu government.
The 49-year-old was an officer in the RPA, which invaded from nearby Uganda.
Rwandan Patriotic Front stand next to the skulls of Tutsis massacred by Hutus in the 1994 Rwanda genocide
The Tutsi ethnic group made up only a small proportion (about 14 per cent) of Rwanda's population at the time but made up the vast majority of the dead - with the killers egged on by propaganda comparing the ethnic minority to cockroaches.
Multiple sources in the country and among the Rwandan expat community told the Mail that the Rudakubanas continued to have close links with 'high status' figures linked to the regime.
Rudakubana's parents maintain close connections to the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which is led by the country's president, Paul Kagame
Rudakubana's paternal grandfather, Dr Rudakubana, was an influential figure in Rwanda, as a senior official in the government of President Habyariman, and a founding member of the RPF.
