Aug 5 \u2013 Downing Street has confirmed there will be an emergency response meeting on Monday after more than 150 people were arrested following violent disorder in UK towns and cities over the weekend.<\/p>\n
It comes after Sir Keir Starmer condemned an attack on a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham and promised those involved in unrest would face \u201cthe full force of the law\u201d.<\/p>\n
Police responded to violent scenes in Rotherham, Middlesbrough, Bolton and other parts of the UK on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Cobra meeting will come after a sixth day of escalating violence following the fatal stabbing of three young girls in Southport last week.<\/p>\n
Cobra meetings, or Cobr meetings as they are often also called, are named after Cabinet Office Briefing Room A on Whitehall.<\/p>\n
It is an emergency response committee, a get together of ministers, civil servants, the police, intelligence officers and others appropriate to whatever they are looking into.<\/p>\n
Monday\u2019s meeting of the emergency committee will be intended to provide the government with an update on the violence over the weekend and the response in the coming days. It will involve relevant ministers and police representatives.<\/p>\n
Sources have suggested this should be seen in the context of meetings that have already taken place, such as one between the prime minister and police chiefs last Thursday, and a meeting of senior ministers on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Police say 700 people gathered outside a Holiday Inn Express<\/p>\n
During the prime minister\u2019s televised address on Sunday, he warned those involved that they will \u201cregret\u201d taking part.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople in this country have a right to be safe, and yet we\u2019ve seen Muslim communities targeted, attacks on mosques,\u201d the prime minister said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOther minority communities singled out, Nazi salutes in the street, attacks on the police, wanton violence alongside racist rhetoric, so no, I won\u2019t shy away from calling it what it is: far-right thuggery.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a statement, the Home Office offered mosques greater protections as part of a new process, under which it said \u201crapid security\u201d deployment can be requested in order to allow a return to worship as fast as possible.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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