He said that he was launching a “national capability” to tackle the thugs who “move from community to community”, adding that the police should also be able to be work in an agile way.
“These people are showing our country exactly who they are,” he said.
“Mosques targeted because they are mosques, flares thrown at the statue of Winston Churchill, a Nazi salute at the Cenotaph.”
The Prime Minister said that their actions meant the people of Southport suffered twice.
Sir Keir Starmer meets with senior policing leaders following disorder in the wake of Southport stabbings
He added that Britain is “a country that will not allow understandable fear to curdle into division and hate in our communities, and that will not permit under any circumstances a breakdown in law and order on our streets.”
Starmer said the riots were “not protest, it’s not legitimate – it’s crime, violent disorder, an assault on the rule of law and the execution of justice,” vowing to put a stop to it.
