The violence that we are seeing now on the streets of Britain is appalling, and we welcome the urgent and robust response from the authorities.
What we are seeing now is in part the result of ten months of catastrophically poor policing. Notwithstanding our repeated calls to crack down on extremists on our streets over the past year, they were allowed to go unchallenged.
Once the authorities have dealt with the far-right riots and those violently reacting to them, they must finally also turn their attention to the Islamist and far-left extremism that has plagued our country for months.
In 2022 the Crown Prosecution Service dropped charges against men who drove to a Jewish community shouting "F*** the Jews. F*** their mothers, rape their daughters," the men were allowed to walk free.
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