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Hello I'm Hannah Barnes, and you're listening to the New Statesman podcast.

I'm joined today in the studio by New Statesman Senior Editor George Eaton.

Now, the unrest and violence which gripped the country last week after the killing of three young girls

seems to have halted for the time being a brief sigh of relief. But this doesn't mean that the anger which was

unleashed on asylum seekers, the police, mosques and local communities or

what may lie beneath it has gone away.

The Prime Minister promised that rioters would feel the full force of the law,

and he's been true to his word.

As many as a thousand people have been arrested so far and almost 550 charged.

But beneath the misinformation around the Southport murders of the three little girls,

what was the root of the rioters anger? While some undoubtedly sought to sow division

and others went on opportunistic looting expeditions, there are genuine held concerns over immigration and the gulf between different societies and communities in the UK.

The immediate task of restoring law and order is one which perhaps comes easy to cure stama. But now the

harder longer term job, what story will he tell to rebuild and reunite this

divided nation.

George, the government's response,

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