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Britain is recovering from Having enjoyed a month-long honeymoon in which he visited the Paris Olympics, hobnobbed with global leaders and announced an ambitious agenda, Prime Minister Keir Starmer is now trying to reassert not just public order but also public confidence, delivering an address to the nation on Aug 4 and chairing an emergency Cobra meeting the next day. The scale of the rioting was shocking. In Rotherham, a crowd tried to burn down a hotel housing asylum seekers. In Liverpool, rioters burned down a children’s library. In Middlesbrough, hooligans roamed through residential neighbourhoods, breaking windows. Mosques were attacked, shops looted, cars set on fire. Balaclava-wearing thugs swathed themselves in Union flags or flags of St George, turned street furniture into makeshift weapons, and shouted “We want our country back”.