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HANSARDViolent DisorderThe hon. Member makes an important point. The whole purpose of the review on countering extremism is to make sure that we tackle the kinds of extremism that we have seen grow in…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderThe hon. Member is right that in this country, we have always had people come together and work together to tackle problems and debate issues. The people responsible for this…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderThe hon. Member will be aware that full implementation of the Online Safety Act 2023 has been long delayed and is still needed. One of the provisions of the Act is a requirement…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderClearly, we want to see increasing living standards right across the board. That is immensely important. We also need a serious and sensible debate on a range of policies,…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderMy hon. Friend is exactly right. We can all have an important debate in this place—the kind of debate that people have in communities across the country—about the issues that she…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderI welcome the hon. Member’s support for the speedy response from the police and criminal justice system to the violence that we saw on our streets. I agree that it is a serious…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderNobody in Britain should ever feel afraid because of the colour of their skin. That is the really troubling thing that we found people saying and feeling as a result of the…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderMy hon. Friend is exactly right. He speaks strongly for the people of Sunderland, who came together. Volunteers ensured that the citizens advice bureau could keep working to…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderI certainly think that we should have honest and practical debates about issues, rather than debates that end up being lost in rhetoric, and often lose sight of the facts and…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderThe Deputy Prime Minister will be working with local councils across the country on what we need to do to improve cohesion. She and I have discussed many times the importance of…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderI welcome my hon. Friend’s points, and put on record my strong gratitude towards police officers across the country. I pay tribute to them. Officers gave up their rest days and…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderThe hon. Member will know that decisions on charging and on which courts take the decisions is not a matter for Government and rightly so. Those are independent matters for the…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderMy hon. Friend is right that there has been continual misinformation about this—often deliberate misinformation. Those who made the decision to get involved in violent…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderMy hon. Friend makes an important point about the tradition of British policing, of which I think we should feel proud. The idea that the police should operate without fear or…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderI join the right hon. Member in condemning the appalling violent disorder that we saw on the streets of Belfast and in Northern Ireland and in welcoming the support from Police…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderI thank my hon. Friend for his powerful words on behalf of his constituents. I thank him for standing up for the people of Southport, including those families who have had to…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderI welcome the right hon. Member’s support for the police and the work they did, and for the importance of ensuring that these kinds of crimes are not tolerated and the…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderThe right hon. Member makes an important point. There is no doubt that the swift response from the police, the prosecution and the criminal justice system had a strong impact and…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderMy hon. Friend makes an important point about the number of young people involved. Some of them had a string of convictions—they had history—but there were also young people who…02 Sept 2024HANSARDViolent DisorderBefore I start, I want to pass our sympathies to the families of Cher Maximen and Mussie Imnetu, who died, sadly, this weekend following violent incidents around the Notting Hill…02 Sept 2024