A SENIOR police commissioner sought to justify the wave of riots incited by the far right today as institutional racism continues to plague the force.

Tory politician Donna Jones, Hampshire’s police & crime commissioner since 2021, also chairs the Association of Police & Crime Commissioners. She said that arresting people was “treating the symptom and not the cause.”

In a now-removed statement, she said claimed the protests focused on “the desire to protect Britain’s sovereignty” and “the need to uphold British values.” She went on to ask for the government’s solution to “mass uncontrolled migration.”