Anti-Immigrant Riots Pose Critical Test for Keir Starmer

“With cars being torched and mosques and hotels housing asylum seekers under attack, the riots that swept Britain over the past two weeks have posed the first direct challenge to the new prime minister, Keir Starmer,” the New York Times reports.

“But even if the violence has subsided, for now, at least, the shocking scenes of disorder have underscored the scale of the task facing his government.”

“That, analysts say, includes defusing tensions stoked successfully by far-right groups — over immigration and fraying public services — particularly in areas of Britain that have long been in economic decline.”