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The grifters behind the Southport riots are only getting started – and they have a voice in parliament | Gaby Hinsliff

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A traumatised town was doing its best to show that the riots were not in their name.

If you really care about the victims of an unspeakable tragedy, you don’t use their suffering as an excuse to loot corner shops.

And that’s what civic pride, looking after your own, and all the other old-fashioned values the far right falsely claims to stand for, actually look like in action.

Conservative peer Sayeeda Warsi is right that this week ’s violence can’t be separated from a culture of Islamophobic prejudice.

How leadership contenders in her own party respond to the riots will be a litmus test for their future fitness for office.

This is a crucial defining moment for the new prime minister, who has a wobbly relationship with Muslim voters post-Gaza .

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