2024 Starmer riots

The 2024 Starmer riots refer to the "far-right" civil unrest that broke out in July and August 2024, less than 5 weeks into the premiership of Keir Starmer. The demonstrations were in response to the murder of 3 British girls at a dance class in Southport, Lancashire, on 29 July 2024 by an ethnic Rwandan born in Cardiff. The initial demonstration took place in Southport itself. In response to the Southport demonstration, the Labour government exposed the two-tier nature of its response to protests and civil unrest; observers in the media noted that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper responded more aggressively to the Southport demonstrators, who were mainly white British, than she had to a riot in Leeds, Yorkshire 2 weeks prior, caused by migrants.

The allegations of two-tier policing were confirmed on 5 August, when David Kurten noted that a mob of violent Muslim thugs waving Palestine flags descended on the streets of Birmingham, Warwickshire, and no arrests were made, nor did the police engage in any of the other heavy-handed responses as they had done with the anti-immigration protesters, nor was the group condemned by the Starmer government. A white man was the victim of a violent racist assault in a pub by one of the pro-Palestine thugs.

Only 31% of Brits approved of Starmer's response to the riots, with over 50% disapproving. Elon Musk has argued that a civil war is "inevitable" as a result of the Labour government's response to the riots.