A “breakdown of law and order on our streets” would not be tolerated, according to Sir Keir Starmer, after the attack that claimed the lives of three young girls who were taking a dance lesson with Taylor Swift as its subject. The incident occurred in Southport, Hartlepool, and London.
The prime minister held a press conference inside Downing Street, denouncing a “tiny, mindless minority in our society” for making a “grieving” community “struggle twice” by forcing them to conduct a demonstration following the stabbings.
“A group of criminals boarded buses and trains and traveled to a locality.”
After that, [they] started hurling stones at police officers. Police officers who were dealing with a kid attack in their town just a day before. Their neighborhood.”
He declared that the government would create “national capability” among police forces to address “violent disorder” and announced the creation of the riot squad.
