UK PM reacts sharply to attack on asylum-seeker hotel as far-right violence spreads: 'This isn't protest'
India TV NewsUK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has come out with strong condemnation of an attack on Sunday on a hotel where asylum seekers resided, which left at least 10 police officers injured, and described it as a “far-right thuggery”. His remarks came after another day of far-right violence which was primarily prevalent in the north of England town of Rotherham where the police confronted the challenge of stopping hundreds of rioters who sought to barge into the Holiday Inn Express hotel which was being used as accommodation for asylum-seekers. While it was a smaller number of those in attendance who chose to commit violence and destruction, those who simply stood on and watched remain absolutely complicit in this," said Assistant Chief Constable Lindsey Butterfield. “People in this country have a right to be safe, and yet we've seen Muslim communities targeted, attacks on mosques, other minority communities singled out, Nazi salutes in the street, attacks on the police, wanton violence alongside racist rhetoric, so no, I won't shy away from calling it what it is: far-right thuggery,” he said.
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