The Prime Minister drew parallels between the clean-up of the riots, and the work his Government is proposing to improve the country.
Sir Keir Starmer said: “We can get through this together, because the riots didn’t just betray the sickness, they also revealed the cure, found not in the cynical conflict of populism, but in the coming together of a country.
“The people who got together the morning after, all around the country, with their brooms, their shovels, their trowels and cleared up their community, they reminded us who we really are. I felt real pride in those people who cleaned up our streets, rebuilt the walls, repaired the damage.
“And I couldn’t help thinking about the obvious parallels, because imagine the pride we will feel as a nation when after the hard work of clearing up the mess is done, we have a country that we have built together, built to last, that belongs to every single one of us, and all of us have a stake in it.
“Our hard work rewarded a dozen times over, because we’ll have an economy that works for everyone, an NHS not just back on its feet, but fit for the future, streets that everyone feels safe in, no longer dependent on foreign dictators, because we’re producing our own clean energy right here and giving every child, wherever they come from, whatever their background, the chance to go as far as their talents will take them.”
“Let’s fix it together,” he concluded.
