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Response to Southport riots 'failed to look at racism link'
The Guardian
|January 19, 2026
The response to the riots in England and Northern Ireland in 2024 failed to address the root causes and delinked the violence from racism, a thinktank has claimed.
A paper by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) said an obfuscation of the causes and consequences of the riots risked legitimising further far-right mobilisation and vigilante violence. It said that what happened had often been reduced to an issue of mindless thuggery or violence.
Liz Fekete, the IRR’s director, said: "What emerges from the binding narrative of defendants who participated in the riots could be compared to an echo chamber.
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