United Kingdom's Downing Street is due to hold a COBRA meeting today after "thugs" tried to storm hotels housing asylum seekers on the sixth day of escalating disorder, APA reports citing SKY News.
COBRA, named after Cabinet Office Briefing Room A on Whitehall, is a committee that sees ministers, civil servants, the police, intelligence officers, and other appropriate people meet to discuss an emergency response plan to a particular issue.
In today's meeting, ministers and police representatives will discuss the response to the riots over the coming days.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer - for whom this is a first COBRA - vowed rioters would "regret" engaging in "far-right thuggery" and promised those involved in unrest would "face the full force of the law" as he addressed the nation yesterday.
For the last six days, rioting and unrest has been seen on streets in towns across the UK.
The riots began in Southport last Tuesday - a day after three girls were killed in a stabbing attack in the Merseyside town.
Violent protesters, many from outside the town, hurled bricks at police and at a local mosque, set fires and threw bottles, with more than 50 officers injured.
Many of the rioters were supporters of the far right, police said at the time, and the escalating violence has since been described as "far-right thuggery" by the prime minister.
Since that day, protests have been held in London, Rotherham, Middlesbrough, Liverpool, Bolton and Northern Ireland among other places.
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