Sir Keir Starmer has warned his Cabinet to repair ‘”social fabric” or risk another summer of anti-immigration riots.Pressure is mounting on the Government as a trio of protests broke out across the country, in Canary Wharf in London, Epping in Essex and Diss in Norfolk, as Reform UK leader Nigel Farage warned that Britain was close to “civil disobedience on a vast scale.”Speaking at a Cabinet meeting yesterday, deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said the Government needed to acknowledge “real concerns” about rapid change in order to defuse community tensions.Sir Keir Starmer said Labour had to improve integration in areas that have experienced high levels of migration, reports The Times. Meanwhile, Downing Street’s executive director of policy and delivery Liz Lloyd warned that social cohesion was “fraying at the edges.”While Downing Street sources were quick to downplay that the Cabinet comments were in response to unrest in Essex, they stressed Starmer had been concerned since Southport about the unravelling of “unwritten rules that hold a nation together.”Rayner said that “while Britain was a successful multi-ethnic, multi-faith country, the Government had to show it had a plan to address people’s concerns.”It comes as further protests are planned outside the Epping hotel, with concerns that disorder may spiral.Farage said earlier this week: “I don’t think anybody in London even understands just how close we are to civil disobedience on a vast scale in this country.”FOLLOW BELOW FOR LIVE UPDATES THROUGHOUT THE DAY…
Sir James Cleverley says Labour has made ‘so many mistakes’ as he returns to frontline politics
Sir James Cleverley has returned to frontline politicsGB NEWSSir James Cleverley has told GB News he returned to frontline politics as Labour had made “so many mistakes.”The new Shadow Housing Secretary said he was glad to have taken a “breather” since he finished third in last year’s leadership contest.The MP for Braintree told the People’s Channel: “When Kemi spoke over the weekend and asked me to come back to the frontline I was delighted to. “In the year since Labour came in, they have made so many mistakes and caused so many problems, that really I think we need to do everything we can to hold them to account. ”