Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has promised communities "will be safe" following a Cobra meeting on Tuesday evening and said those taking part in unrest will "feel the full force of the law"
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00:00They will be safe. We're doing everything we can to ensure that where a police response is
00:05needed it's in place, where support is needed for particular places that that is in space.
00:11Obviously it's a difficult situation with disorder going on in a number of different places
00:17at the same time but that is precisely why I held my second COBRA meeting today,
00:22to coordinate the response and to get the assurance that I want and need that we do
00:28have adequate police in place, that we are able to cope with this disorder. But the message has
00:34to go to those who are involving themselves in this disorder, which is you're wrong,
00:39you shouldn't be doing it and you will fall in the full force of the law,
00:42as I hope we've been able to demonstrate with these swift prosecutions.