No 10 expected to hold emergency Cobra meeting after far-right riots in England escalated on Sunday night
Parliament should be recalled to deal with the outbreak of rioting in the UK, Dame Priti Patel has said.
The former home secretary told Times Radio:
What we are seeing across the country right now is just extraordinary criminality.
At the end of the day, crime and criminality is the responsibility of those who are perpetrating this and we now need to, in my view, as politicians, get some kind of grip of this, which is why I am calling for the recall of Parliament right now so that we can actually discuss these issues in a similar way… back in 2011 those discussions took place and actually we put our arm around the communities that were affected at the time.
There is not and can never be any excuse, justification or rationale for behavior like this.
This should be condemned by everybody, and those taking part should expect to be met with the full weight of the law.