Institute of Race Relations says violence in Southport and elsewhere often reduced to ‘mindless’ thuggery
The response to the 2024 riots in England and Northern Ireland failed to address its root causes and delinked the violence from racism, a thinktank has claimed.
A paper by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) reported that an obfuscation of the causes and consequences of the riots risks legitimising further far-right mobilisation and vigilante violence.
It said that what happened has often been reduced to “mindless” thuggery or violence.
Liz Fekete, IRR director, said: “What emerges from the binding narrative of defendants who participated in the riots could be compared to the distorted confines of an echo chamber.
