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MPs find no evidence of ‘two-tier policing’ during summer riots
Scott Greenwood (background centre in St George's flag bucket hat) by a generator during an anti-immigration demonstration outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, August 4, 2024

THE way police responded to the racist riots that engulfed Britain last summer was “entirely appropriate,” a parliamentary report found today.

The home affairs committee published a report on the police response to disorder that broke out following the murder of three young girls in Southport last July.

Allegations of “two-tier policing” emerged, with claims that police were more heavy-handed with people on the right than the left, which MPs have now condemned as “baseless.”

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