Can the government stop the far right?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Hundreds of people tried to set fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers in Rotherham on Sunday, while a children’s library in Liverpool and a Citizens Advice centre in Sunderland were burnt over the weekend.
Mosques have also been attacked and shops looted.
The prime minister is facing mounting pressure to take a stand against the far right.
On today’s episode of the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks with Ivan Humble, a former leading active member of the English Defence League who now works to tackle radicalisation and extremism in the UK.
Plus our political correspondent Rob Powell talks about the government's response to the crisis.
Producers: Rosie Gillott & Alex Edden
Editor: Philly Beaumont
Promotion producer: David Chipakupaku
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| 0:59.8 | Welcome back to the Sky News Daily. |
| 1:01.7 | I'm Neil Patterson. |
| 1:02.6 | I look, no prizes for guessing where we begin the week. |
| 1:09.4 | Fresh outbreaks of violence took place around the country at the weekend. |
| 1:13.7 | A hotel in Rotherham housing asylum seekers was stormed and set alight. |
| 1:18.8 | A citizens' advice centre in Sunderland and a children's library in Liverpool also destroyed. |
| 1:24.7 | Mosques have been attacked, shops looted. |
| 1:28.6 | The reasons why, well, those are a little harder to come by than evidence of any barbarity. |
| 1:34.4 | Ostensibly, these gatherings were a response to the killing of three children in Southport a week ago. |
| 1:40.4 | Yet the savagery and the violence that followed the protests led the Prime Minister to call it as he sees it. |
| 1:47.0 | This is not protest. It is organised violent thuggery. |
| 1:53.0 | And it has no place on our streets or online. |
| 1:58.0 | So no, I won't shy away from calling it what it is. Far-right thuggery. |
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