Southport stabbing latest: home secretary will ‘look at’ whether EDL should be proscribed group; detectives given more time to question suspect

Angela Rayner suggests that Yvette Cooper ‘will be looking at’ whether English Defence League should be proscribed as terror group after riots in Southport

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Angela Rayner has criticised the “disgraceful” rioting in Southport and “disrespectful” social media theories that have been the source of misinformation around the attacker.

Speaking on ITV’s This Morning, the deputy prime minister said:

I think there’s been a couple of instances recently where, especially particularly online, where theories and things are whipped up, whereas actually it turns out to be not true or not the full picture.

And I think there’s a culture now where people want to instantly get the facts, but actually it’s important that police and those people that are doing the work are able to carry out that work. And it’s important for justice as well, because we have law and order in the UK, and it’s important that those authorities are able to establish the facts and then to be able to bring those forward.

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