The prime minister has held the first meeting of the Cobra emergency committee since disorder began last week, after riots escalated over the weekend.
Hundreds of people tried to set a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham ablaze on Sunday, while a children’s library in Liverpool and a Citizens Advice centre in Sunderland were burnt over the weekend. Mosques have also been attacked and shops looted.
Sir Keir Starmer vowed that rioters would regret engaging in “far-right thuggery”. Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, wrote in The Times that those who whipped up hatred on social media would face the same reckoning as rioters.’
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