UK PM holds emergency meeting over far-right riots
The Philippine Star|August 06, 2024
UK leader Keir Starmer will hold an emergency response meeting today after further far-right riots broke out across England over the weekend following the murder of three children last week.
UK PM holds emergency meeting over far-right riots

The prime minister will chair à Cobra meeting, which will bring together ministers and the police to discuss how to quell the violence that first broke out in Southport, northwest England on Tuesday, and has now seen hundreds of people arrested.

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