Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to hold meeting with police chiefs after week of violence on UK streets

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The Prime Minister is set to meet with police chiefs over the scenes of violence and disorder erupting on the UK's streets. Sir Keir Starmer will convene senior policing leaders in Downing Street today (August 1) to offer them the government's 'full backing' following multiple high-profile incidents of extreme violence and public disorder across the country in recent days.

It followed riots erupting in Southport on Tuesday night (July 30), which saw officers and police injured, vans and cars set alight and a local shop being ransacked as hundreds spilled out on the streets following the deaths of three little girls in a brutal stabbing. READ MORE Protest in Manchester erupts into scenes of violence as man dragged off bus and rocks and bottles pelted at police And on Wednesday evening (July 31), police were forced to break up crowds protesting outside Downing Street with numerous demonstrators arrested for breaching a dispersal order.

In Manchester, police and a bus driver were assaulted in a violent disorder that erupted outside a hotel housing asylum seekers on Wednesday.

Riot police were pelted with bottles, rocks and bricks before two men, aged 18 and 25, were arrested. In Hartlepool, police in protective gear cordoned off streets as young people gathered on corners and attacked them with eggs and glass bottles.