Overview

• Marking the fourth anniversary of Sir David Amess’s killing, his daughter Katie renewed the family’s call for a full public inquiry, saying they are still without answers.
• Katie Amess accused Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of “point blank refusing” an inquiry and urged him to meet the family as previously promised.
• She said David Anderson KC’s Prevent review failed to explain how Ali Harbi Ali, referred to the programme years earlier, was assessed and then effectively left without meaningful intervention.
• The Home Office said several reviews have already been completed, citing improvements to Prevent and stronger protections for MPs, and argued a public inquiry is unlikely to uncover new information.
• It added that officials will further scrutinise the existing reviews; Ali Harbi Ali was convicted in 2022 and is serving a whole-life term for the 2021 murder during a constituency surgery.