The response to the 2024 riots in England and Northern Ireland failed to address its root causes and delinked the violence from racism, a thinktank has claimed.
A paper by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) says an obfuscation of the causes and consequences of the riots risks legitimising further far-right mobilisation and vigilante violence. It says that what happened has often been reduced to “mindless” thuggery or violence.
