Although the president had been talking about the idea for weeks, there had been no meetings on the subject, and senior members of his government were taken by surprise.

"Failed by the state" is the Daily Mirror's headline, as it carries the pictures of the three Nottingham victims as well as the three girls killed by Axel Rudakubana in Southport. A review found he had been dropped from the terror watchlist "too early", the paper says.