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British govt yet to tackle roots of Southport riots

Britain’s cities and towns are quiet again after the country was gripped by the worst wave of race riots in decades.

Britain’s cities and towns are quiet again after the country was gripped by the worst wave of race riots in decades. Much of the credit for restoring law and order goes to Mr Keir Starmer, who clearly proved to be the right man at the right time and in the right spot. As a former national chief prosecutor during a previous major outbreak of racially related civil unrest in the UK in 2011, he grasped the importance of combining tough policing of Britain’s streets with the swift prosecution of those arrested for violence.