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As Keir said, as every decent person has said, I think these are far-right thugs who attacked some of the most vulnerable people in our communities and there is absolutely no excuse,
Oliver Coppard, the mayor of South Yorkshire, told the BBC It is an emergency response committee — a get together of ministers, civil servants, the police, intelligence officers and other officials appropriate to the situation they are looking into,
I think what you've seen is that networks of different individuals and groups that have been trying to fan the flames,
she told Sky News, swerving questions on whether foreign states had been involved They are lying to you all,
Yaxley-Lennon, who is known by the pseudonym Tommy Robinson, wrote Civil war is inevitable."
Responding to a post on X that blamed mass migration and open borders for the disorder in Britain, he wrote Reasonable people who have all those sorts of views and concerns do not pick up bricks and throw them at the police,
They could and should have been quicker, it's worrying that it's only today that cobra is meeting
But he also criticised Starmer's new government for not reacting quickly enough I'm really uncomfortable with the idea that somehow this violence reflects a wider national move
There were rumours circulating that asylum seekers currently housed on the Bibby Stockholm would be moved to Portland, Weymouth or the wider Dorset Council area but the Home Office have confirmed this is not the case
Whatever they and some of their political supporters may tell us, these are not patriots standing up for their communities. They are thugs, criminals and extremists who betray the values our country is built on."
The writing was clearly on the wall for some time."
Dame Sara Khan, who was Rishi Sunak's independent adviser for social cohesion and resilience until May, blamed the Conservative government for leaving the country open to far-right violence, telling the Guardian There is a real sense that people aren’t thinking about the consequences,
The system is simply not working for children.”
Amerdeep Somal told the Guardian There were different groups taking part in it,
These people who rioted don’t speak for Sunderland and we are ashamed and embarrassed.”
In Sunderland, for example, crowds gathered to clean up the city centre, with one participant saying Stoking race riots from his sunbed
the Daily Mail pictures ex-EDL hatemonger Tommy Robinson on a five-star resort lounger in Cyprus You will regret this, Starmer warns rioters
is the Guardian’s splash headline this Monday morning Rioters storm migrant hotel ... Far-right clash with Muslims in rioting”.
says the Daily Express while the Daily Telegraph has You need a goal to work towards, and this is mine,
The police will be making arrests,