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Violent Disorder

Ministerial statement on Monday, 2 September 2024, in the House of Commons, led by Yvette Cooper.
Statement on violent disorder during the summer.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
753 cc55-73 
Session
2024-25
Department
Home Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Judith Cummins | 753 c55 (Link to this contribution)

Before I call the Home Secretary to make her statement, I remind the House that several hundred p...

Yvette Cooper | 753 cc55-8 (Link to this contribution)

Before I start, I want to pass our sympathies to the families of Cher Maximen and Mussie Imnetu, ...


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James Cleverly | 753 cc56-9 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Secretary of State for the advance copy of her statement.

I wish, once again, t...

Yvette Cooper | 753 cc59-60 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the shadow Home Secretary’s words of support for the Southport families and his reasser...

Andy Slaughter | 753 c60 (Link to this contribution)

May I compliment the Home Secretary and the Lord Chancellor on the robust response that the whole...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c60 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes an important point about the number of young people involved. Some of them h...

Judith Cummins | 753 c60 (Link to this contribution)

I call the Liberal Democrat spokesperson.

Alistair Carmichael | 753 c60 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Home Secretary for advance sight of her statement. I associate myself and my party wi...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c61 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the right hon. Member’s support for the police and the work they did, and for the impor...

Patrick Hurley | 753 c61 (Link to this contribution)

The Home Secretary rightly started her statement by remembering the victims of the horrific attac...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c61 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for his powerful words on behalf of his constituents. I thank him for stan...

Julian Lewis | 753 c61 (Link to this contribution)

Does the Home Secretary agree that one reason why what might be called her shock and awe policy s...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c62 (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Member makes an important point. There is no doubt that the swift response from th...

Dawn Butler | 753 c62 (Link to this contribution)

May I just say what a powerful statement my hon. Friend the Member for Southport (Patrick Hurley)...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c62 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome my hon. Friend’s points. One of the most troubling things that we saw during those days...

Gavin Robinson | 753 cc62-3 (Link to this contribution)

Welcome to the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker.

I agree with the Home Secretary’s condemnation ...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c63 (Link to this contribution)

I join the right hon. Member in condemning the appalling violent disorder that we saw on the stre...

Jonathan Brash | 753 c63 (Link to this contribution)

The violence that took place in my constituency of Hartlepool on 31 July was perpetrated by a min...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c63 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right that there has been continual misinformation about this—often deliberate ...

Joy Morrissey | 753 c63 (Link to this contribution)

What percentage of these cases were dealt with by district judges rather than lay magistrates, an...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c64 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Member will know that decisions on charging and on which courts take the decisions is no...

Chris Webb | 753 c64 (Link to this contribution)

I wish to extend my gratitude to the Home Secretary for her statement, and echo her acknowledgmen...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c64 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome my hon. Friend’s points, and put on record my strong gratitude towards police officers ...

Pete Wishart | 753 c64 (Link to this contribution)

We in Scotland are grateful that we were spared any of the violence that we saw throughout the re...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c64 (Link to this contribution)

I certainly think that we should have honest and practical debates about issues, rather than deba...

Stella Creasy | 753 c65 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for the strong leadership that the Home Secretary has shown on this. The truth is t...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c65 (Link to this contribution)

Nobody in Britain should ever feel afraid because of the colour of their skin. That is the really...

Lee Anderson | 753 c65 (Link to this contribution)

The amount of stabbings and deaths by stabbings in this country is reaching shocking levels. Over...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c65 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the hon. Member’s support for the speedy response from the police and criminal justice ...

Nadia Whittome | 753 c66 (Link to this contribution)

The appalling racist riots may be over for now, but the ideology behind them is a growing threat,...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c66 (Link to this contribution)

Clearly, we want to see increasing living standards right across the board. That is immensely imp...

Siân Berry | 753 c66 (Link to this contribution)

The ugly, racist mob violence in our towns and cities this summer was incited and organised by fa...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c66 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Member will be aware that full implementation of the Online Safety Act 2023 has been lon...

Caroline Nokes | 753 c67 (Link to this contribution)

Can I encourage Members to ask short questions and the Home Secretary to make answers shorter, as...

Jo White | 753 c67 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the Home Secretary for her statement. I agree with her point that it is perfectl...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c67 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is exactly right. We can all have an important debate in this place—the kind of de...

Gregory Campbell | 753 c67 (Link to this contribution)

At the start of the trouble in Northern Ireland, I went to our Deputy First Minister and got her,...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c67 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Member is right that in this country, we have always had people come together and work t...

Apsana Begum | 753 c67 (Link to this contribution)

For too long, Muslims have been scapegoated for the failings of the political and economic system...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c68 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Member makes an important point. The whole purpose of the review on countering extremism...

Jim Allister | 753 c68 (Link to this contribution)

I join in the condemnation of the thuggery and violence that we all saw and deplored, but can I t...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c68 (Link to this contribution)

There will be many opportunities in this House to talk about the details of immigration policy—I ...

Andrew Pakes | 753 c68 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the strong leadership that this Government and Home Secretary have shown. Even though P...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c68 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right. That is why the Deputy Prime Minister is taking forward work around comm...

Jim Shannon | 753 c69 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Home Secretary for her statement, her clear, strong leadership and her swift action. ...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c69 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the points that the hon. Member makes and his recognition of the seriousness of, and th...

Kim Johnson | 753 c69 (Link to this contribution)

I start by extending my condolences to the family, friends and loved ones of the three little gir...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c69 (Link to this contribution)

The Deputy Prime Minister will be working with local councils across the country on what we need ...

Connor Naismith | 753 c70 (Link to this contribution)

Does the Home Secretary agree that those who suggest that this country has some form of two-tier ...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c70 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes an important point. Police officers in this country take an oath when they b...

Jake Richards | 753 c70 (Link to this contribution)

The scenes outside a hotel in Wath over the summer took place just a few miles away from my const...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c70 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes an important point and speaks powerfully for his constituency. I am so sorry...

Lewis Atkinson | 753 c70 (Link to this contribution)

My constituents were appalled by the criminal disorder that we saw on our streets at the start of...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c71 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is exactly right. He speaks strongly for the people of Sunderland, who came togeth...

Afzal Khan | 753 c71 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Home Secretary for the statement and for the swift action taken during the violent di...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c71 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes an important point about the emergency procedure that we brought in to accel...

Jessica Toale | 753 c71 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the Home Secretary for her statement and welcome the range of police reforms tha...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c71 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes an important point about the tradition of British policing, of which I think...

Andy McDonald | 753 c72 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Home Secretary for her statement. She will be aware that the riots, which sought to e...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c72 (Link to this contribution)

I am glad to hear my hon. Friend’s description of the way in which communities come together to c...

Joani Reid | 753 c72 (Link to this contribution)

There has been much discussion of the role that social media played in fuelling the violent disor...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c72 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right: we have seen deliberate attempts to radicalise people or promote extremi...

Andrew Lewin | 753 c72 (Link to this contribution)

Last month, Elon Musk fanned the flames of violent disorder. He personally amplified extremist ac...

Yvette Cooper | 753 c73 (Link to this contribution)

There is an important point here, which is that the social media companies and their owners need ...

Caroline Nokes | 753 c73 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Home Secretary for that statement.

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