The Guardian – You will regret this, Starmer warns rioters
Sir Keir Starmer has told rioters they will regret taking part in the violent disorder, The Guardian reports. Prime minister says all right-minded people should condemn violence, which escalated on Sunday with attempts to firebomb hotels. Lower down the front page there is an exclusive report on Dame Sara Khan – who advised Tory PM’s Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak. She tells the paper the recent administrations failed the country and left the UK wide open to far-right violence.
The front page has space to report on Noah Lyles who won the men’s 100m gold by the narrowest margin in the dramatic Olympic final.
Starmer to lead Cobra meeting after vowing swift justice awaits ‘far-right thugs’
Keir Starmer will lead a meeting of the Cobra emergency committee on Monday morning after issuing a stark warning to “far-right thugs” that they will regret any role in rioting, which escalated on Sunday with a mob attempting to set fire to a hotel housing asylum seekers and other violent disorder.
The prime minister said the violent rioters targeting people because of their skin colour will be swiftly convicted, as he said “all right-minded people should condemn” the disorder.
“Be in no doubt: those who have participated in this violence will face the full force of the law,” he said. “The police will be making arrests. Individuals will be held on remand. Charges will follow. And convictions will follow. I guarantee you will regret taking part in this disorder.”
Conservatives left UK wide open to far-right violence, says former adviser
The Conservative government left the UK wide open to the far-right violence erupting across parts of the country by ignoring red flags and stoking fires with a culture war agenda, a senior adviser on extremism to Tory prime ministers has said.
Dame Sara Khan, who was Rishi Sunak’s independent adviser for social cohesion and resilience until May this year and acted as counter-extremism commissioner under Theresa May and Boris Johnson, said the recent administrations had failed the British people.
Repeated and urgent counsel that far-right extremists were exploiting gaps in the law to foment violence on social media had been ignored while top-rank politicians in a series of administrations sought to gain advantage by waging culture wars, Khan said, in a damning intervention.
Noah Lyles takes men’s 100m gold by narrowest margin in dramatic Olympic final
This was an Olympic 100m final that felt like a brawl: messy, exhilarating, extraordinary, raw. As the world’s eight best male sprinters crossed the finish line in an almighty heap, their form disintegrating as their desperation grew, the giant stadium screens gave no indication of the result. Only the word “photo-finish” was by everyone’s name.
In the desperate seconds that followed, Noah Lyles, the American who is track and field’s greatest showman, went over to the young Jamaican star, Kishane Thompson. “I think you’ve got the Olympics, big dog.” For once, though, Lyles was wrong. But only just.
It came down to just five thousandths of a second: the width of a torso, a blink of an eye. That was the margin between gold and silver, and the gap between Lyles and Thompson, after their heads bobbed over the line in 9.79sec.
Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
If you are someone who reads every perspective of a story, here is a news summary of all of today’s front pages from today’s newspapers; summarised in a 2-minute read
Editorial 05 August 2024.
Monday’s front pages continue the coverage of ongoing riots sweeping across the UK as far-right protesters take to the streets in reaction to the killing of three young girls in Southport.
The protesters have destroyed buildings, fought with police, set cars on fire and looted stores.
Most of the papers feature dramatic images of the damage from the rioters. There is also front-page coverage of the Olympics – but the detailed coverage of Day 9 covers the back pages.
