Security minister Dan Jarvis speaks with Sky’s Sophy Ridge about the Southport murders and the government’s response to them.
The Labour frontbencher says he understands why people are angry about what happened, but the government had to be careful about what it could say at the time.
Mr Jarvis declines to give any names of who he means, however prominent politicians like Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick have both accused the government of a "cover up".
He said these people knew the government "wasn’t able to give a running commentary" because they did not want to endanger any future trial.
He goes on to say it was "quite irresponsible that some people chose to play politics" with the situation.
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