Keir Starmer will chair an emergency Cobra meeting this morning with senior police officials in response to widespread scenes of rioting.
It comes after the PM insisted far-right thugs will face justice for the riots that gripped the country over the weekend. Towns and cities across England suffered violence, disorder, and looting at the hands of hate-filled anti-migrant mobs.
Mr Starmer vowed rioters would “regret” engaging in “far-right thuggery” and promised those involved in unrest would “face the full force of the law” as he addressed the nation on Sunday. During the Cobra meeting at 10 am today in Downing Street the PM is expected to gather senior Cabinet figures to discuss the government and police response to the unrest.
The widespread unrest has also prompted a growing number of MPs to demand Parliament be recalled to debate the riots across the country.
MPs were last ordered to return in the summer of 2021 during the evacuation of UK forces from Afghanistan. MPs were also recalled by ex-Tory PM David Cameron in August 2011 in response to riots and looting that spread across the country at the time.
Veteran Labour MP Diane Abbott tweeted: “Nationwide anti-immigrant riots on a scale never seen before. Threatening life, property, and our police force. We need to recall Parliament.”
Reform UK leader and Clacton MP Nigel Farage demanded MPs return to the Commons. In a statement on X condemning the violence over the week, he added: “In the short term, we will quell the riots, but deeper long-term problems remain.”
