Starmer Says Farage’s Claims of Two-Tier Policing Are a ‘Non-Issue’

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has rejected claims made by Reform Party leader Nigel Farage that a system of “two-tier policing” was in place in Britain. Farage suggested riots in the last week which emerged from protests against levels of immigration had been dealt with more harshly than clashes in Leeds last month, and contrasted markedly with a softly softly approach to the pro-Palestinian marches in London and other big cities. Last month rioters overturned a police car and set vehicles on fire in the Harehills district of Leeds after social workers removed a child from a Roma family amid welfare concerns....