OVER 65 third-sector organisations have signed a letter calling for an urgent response from the government to tackle the root causes of the far-right riots which gripped the nation earlier this month.

Selma Taha, executive director of Southall Black Sisters, delivered the letter to Downing Street today, joined by other leaders including Alphonsine Kabagabo, CEO of Women for Refugee Women, and Gisela Valle Garcia, director of Latin American Women’s Rights Service.

The letter contains a list of 12 demands to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to tackle the root cause of the riots, which saw mobs target mosques, immigration centres and hotels housing asylum-seekers following the murder of three young girls in Southport at the end of July.