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China News Service, August 6. According to British media reports, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer convened an emergency "Cobra" meeting on the 5th attended by key government and police officials to respond to the riots that have occurred in many places in the UK in recent days.

Starmer said after the meeting that the UK will strengthen its police force by forming a "standing army" of professional police officers, while strengthening criminal justice accountability for the perpetrators so that the participants in the riots will be "fully sanctioned" by law. A spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement that the British courts can extend the court session time as needed to ensure that the participants in the riots are punished by law as soon as possible.

Sky News reported that a Downing Street official said that the police "standing army" mentioned by Starmer will be composed of elite forces drawn from police forces across the country. As a police mobile force, "it can be deployed to hotspots more quickly."

According to British media reports, Starmer has made it clear that he will hold far-right rioters accountable. Starmer delivered a stern emergency speech at Downing Street on the 4th, warning those involved: "I promise you will regret getting involved." He added: "Whether it is direct action or people who incite online and then run away. This is not a protest, this is organized violence."

"Make no mistake, those who engage in violence will be faced with the full force of the law. Police will arrest suspects. Suspects will be detained, they will subsequently be charged and convicted," Starmer said.

On July 29, a knife attack occurred in Southport, Merseyside, northwest England, in which a 17-year-old male suspect broke into a primary school dance class and killed three children and injured several others. After the incident, protests broke out in London, Liverpool, Bristol, Hull, Manchester and other places, and turned into violent riots.