"This incident was horrific and senseless" says Prime Minister after death of Sheffield boy at school

The Star, Sheffield

The Prime Minister has said the condolences of the entire House of Commons are with the family, friends and community surrounding Harvey Willgoose - who died at school in Sheffield on Monday.  Louise Haigh MP, Sheffield Heeley, asked the PM to commit to a national strategy to tackle the "root causes of violence", following the alleged stabbing.  Watch the full exchange between Ms Haigh and the Prime Minister here.

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00:00I know the whole House will support the Prime Minister's comments and send our thoughts

00:12to the family and all those who loved Harvey Wilgoose after his tragic and senseless death

00:19on Monday. I support the Government's actions to tackle the sale of certain knives online,

00:26but before national media attention moves on from yet another tragic death of a young

00:31person, I know the Prime Minister will agree with me that in order to tackle the scale

00:37of the crisis engulfing too many of our communities, we need a whole-system, cross-Government approach

00:43to tackle the root causes of violence. Will he commit his Government to tackling such

00:50a national strategy?

00:54This incident was horrific and senseless, and I thank him for raising it. The thoughts

01:00of the whole House are with the victims' families, friends and the wider school community

01:06who have been impacted by this. We are all grateful to the first responders, the police

01:11officers and the medical staff who attended the scene, and it is right that South Yorkshire

01:15Police are given the time and space to carry out their investigation. We need to do everything

01:21we can to bear down on knife crime. It is too easy to get knives online, it is too easy

01:27to carry knives without proper consequences, and that is why we have made it an absolute

01:31priority in Government. I hope it is a cross-party issue to absolutely bear down on knife crime.

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