UK Emergency cabinet meeting

The UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has held an emergency response meeting with senior police leaders as they look to de-escalate the violent scenes that have engulfed the UK – which started following the fatal stabbing of three young girls in Southport a week ago today.

Misinformation about the identity of the Southport attacker, spread on social media, led to far-right riots. The meeting brought together ministers and the police to discuss how to quell the violence that first broke out in Southport, northwest England, and has now seen hundreds of people arrested.