UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says that authorities "have to stay on high alert going into this weekend", amid fears of further far-right riots in English towns and cities. Speaking at a visit to a Metropolitan Police control room in London, Starmer says the online sphere "is not a law-free zone", after misinformation spread on social media further fuelled unrest in recent days.<br /><br />Starmer said the work by the criminal justice system in recent days, including judges swiftly handing down lengthy jail sentences to some rioters, had acted as a deterrent to more violence.<br /><br />His comments came after two nights of relative quiet across England, after a week of near nightly unrest in more than a dozen towns and cities in the wake of a deadly knife attack that killed three children.
