diane abbott, labour mp for hackney north and stoke newington in east london, thank you for your timerham yesterday. 0ur correspondent, jessica lange, has been telling us about the clean—up operation going on there. after all the violence and destruction, —— destruction, today's the day for the clean—up. you can probably see behind me they are boarding up the windows. that is because along the ground floor of this hotel loads of the windows have been broken in the unrest yesterday. there are —— for about 700 people here. it started off fairly peacefully with a protest, then it started to get a lot more violent when some anti—immigration protesters turned up. that's because this holiday inn express was housing asylum seekers and they were coming here to protest against that. you can see this is just some of the glass. the clean—up operation has started, probably in the next hour, and they have done incredible work so far. all of these three windows were broken last night by all the violence. and you can see that is obviously meant to be the dining room, bits of chairs and tables and br

among them is diane abbott, the labour mp for hackney north and stoke newington.and weeks with this violence carrying on. there have never been anti—immigrant riots nationwide like this before. there is a threat to property, there is a threat to life and communities up and down the country are frightened. i think if we can�*t recall parliament in this situation, when angry members of parliament want to speak up for their communities and to be able to question the government on what steps are being taken to put an end to this violence, of course we should recall parliament. do you think, therefore, that the government at the moment is not doing enough? we don�*t know what they�*re doing. that�*s why we need parliament recalled, so they can be questioned on it. this is an extraordinarily grave situation. you�*ve got people trying to burn down hostels where asylum—seekers are cowering. you�*ve got people attacking black and muslim people on the street. we need to be able to question ministers on what exactly is being done and we want to speak up for our communities.

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hackneyed bromides. he would say things like go bomb the drugs in mexico or why don't we take out the whole north koreanmy during one of their parades. if trump wins re-election, will he be able to recruit high-quality advisors who can actually help him make sound decisions? >> margaret, i think so, especially in confirmed positions. if it's a trump administration. >> congress would stop him from putting someone who isn't quality? is that what you're saying >> i think so. there are people willing to serve who can help do what we tried to do in that first year. the narrative around that first year was all about chaos, but we got a lot done. in fact, the story is largely about overcoming that kind of infighting, that war with ourselves, to produce policy outcomes that advanced america's interests. one of those was a dramatic reversal of the obama administration iran policy, which, sadly, the biden administration has put back into place. >> well, iran continued with its nuclear development after trump exited the nuclear deal against the advice of his secretary of state and his defense secretary, so -- >> i

hackney, peckham , brixton. police were peckham, brixton. police were frightened to go there unless they were mob handed and of course can't be right. >> this is replicated in the northnds. >> it's replicated everywhere how. >> now. >> but but you can't surely push back on this idea that what we saw in in southport on tuesday wasn't, you know, a lot of racist , angry wasn't, you know, a lot of racist, angry men looking for trouble who just hate foreigners and want to go back to the 19505. 1950s. >> i mean, you 19505. >> i mean, you could say far right, you could just call them racist thugs, but is the prime minister not right to focus on that or to identify that? >> no, i think he needs to get the bigger picture going because so, so many people i talk to every day in all walks of life, in different parts of the country, they've had enough. they don't want their country taken over. and i don't mean that in a horrible way. if they've come over here by the right roots and they speak the right roots and they speak the right language and they get the right language and they get the right jobs and they contribute to society, absolutely fine. but that's not the case. there'

hackney, peckham , brixton. police were peckham, brixton. police were frightened to go there unless they were mob handed and of course can't be right. >> this is replicated in the northnds. >> it's replicated everywhere how. >> now. >> but but you can't surely push back on this idea that what we saw in in southport on tuesday wasn't, you know, a lot of racist , angry wasn't, you know, a lot of racist, angry men looking for trouble who just hate foreigners and want to go back to the 19505. 1950s. >> i mean, you 19505. >> i mean, you could say far right, you could just call them racist thugs, but is the prime minister not right to focus on that or to identify that? >> no, i think he needs to get the bigger picture going because so, so many people i talk to every day in all walks of life, in different parts of the country, they've had enough. they don't want their country taken over. and i don't mean that in a horrible way. if they've come over here by the right roots and they speak the right roots and they speak the right language and they get the right language and they get the right jobs and they contribute to society, absolutely fine. but that's not the case. there'