Britain is on alert for further unrest even after anti-racism campaigners faced down the far right

Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — British authorities say they’re preparing for the possibility of further unrest, even as they applaud the efforts of anti-racism campaigners and police who largely stifled a threatened wave of far-right demonstrations overnight. Prime Minister Keir Starmer sounded the note of caution Thursday, after a week of anti-immigrant violence that has scarred communities from Northern Ireland to the south coast of England. Starmer spoke to reporters at a mosque in Solihull, near Birmingham, where demonstrators shut down a shopping center earlier this week. He credited strategic police staffing and swift justice for rioters in the courts for helping keep trouble at a minimum the previous night.