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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Darren Lewis

'The seeds of riot were sown hundreds of miles away - and Braverman was silent for hours'

Saturday morning felt as though I’d stepped out of a time machine.

Especially after I watched the appalling scenes in Knowsley, Merseyside: A baying mob surrounding a hotel that is housing people seeking refuge in Britain.

There were signs held aloft reading: ‘This is our city’. Clashes between police and protesters chanting racial slurs. A police van set ablaze.

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