There’s been talk about the possibility of more riots today, after Angela Rayner made a dramatic intervention in the final cabinet meeting before the summer recess.
The deputy prime minister warned that it was “incumbent on the government to acknowledge the real concerns people have and to deliver improvements to people’s lives in their communities”.
She was speaking as concerns heightened that there could be a repeat of the unrest that erupted across the UK after the murder of three young girls in Southport last year.
Rayner’s words also came shortly after protests appeared to break out outside an asylum hotel in Epping, Essex, in the last few days.
The local MP, Neil Hudson, said this had pushed the community to “boiling point”.
Kemi Badenoch said today that she doesn’t expect another summer of riots, but the government needs to be “very, very vigilant” and not just assume “problems didn’t occur”.
Badenoch says the government needs to “anticipate” problems and “be ready”.
There have also been protests outside a hotel in east London which the government plans to use to as asylum seeker accommodation.
The riots last year began on 30 July, lasting until 5 August.
It was one of the first major developments of Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership, taking place less than a month after he took office.
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