Southport is more than just anger and grief

Southport is more than just anger and grief

On the 29th of July, Patrick Hurley didn’t even have an office yet. Sat in a Westminster co-work with other freshmen MPs on a Monday afternoon, the newly elected member for Southport had only been in the job three weeks when a text came through that would threaten to define his entire political career. That morning, a 17-year-old had taken a taxi to a girls’ dance class on Hart Street in east Southport and began stabbing at the children at rando…