Starmer Promises ‘Army’ of Police to Deal With Any Further Riots
- Starmer says riot offenders will face ‘full force of the law’
- Cities across Britain hit by wave of anti-immigrant protests
Riot police officers patrol as anti-migration protesters gather in Rotherham, UK on Aug. 4.
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Foreign states may be involved in fueling a wave of riots that’s hit the UK in the past week, Keir Starmer’s government said, as the prime minister promised to crack down on perpetrators with the “full force of the law.”
The premier on Monday held a so-called Cobra meeting of senior ministers, police and prison chiefs to coordinate the response to anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim riots that led to hundreds of arrests over the last week. Afterward, he told broadcasters that authorities agreed to mobilize a “standing army” of police officers to deal with the disorder.