{"id":33467,"date":"2025-07-22T23:39:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T23:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/deprivation-and-immigration-straining-cohesion-says-rayner\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T23:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T23:39:43","slug":"deprivation-and-immigration-straining-cohesion-says-rayner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/deprivation-and-immigration-straining-cohesion-says-rayner\/","title":{"rendered":"Deprivation and immigration straining cohesion, says Rayner"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Angela Rayner has identified deprivation, time spent online and immigration as factors weaking social cohesion in the UK.<\/p>\n

Presenting the findings of her year-long study, commissioned in the wake of a wave of riots across the UK sparked by the murder of three girls in Southport, the deputy prime minister told ministers they must confront people’s “real concerns” to rebuild trust.<\/p>\n

Downing Street said the unreleased study will form the backbone of the Plan for Neighbourhoods<\/a>, which promises to invest \u00a31.5 billion in 75 of the “most deprived” areas across the UK over the next decade.<\/p>\n

Her comments come ahead of the first anniversary the Southport attack on 29 July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Axel Rudakubana is serving a life sentence for murdering Bebe King, Elsie Dot Stancombe and Alice Da Silva Aguiar when he attacked a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport.<\/p>\n

Eight other girls were seriously injured, along with two adults who tried to stop the killer.<\/p>\n

Protests about the killing developed into a riot on 30 July, fuelled by misinformation<\/a> alleging Rudakubana, who was born in Cardiff, was a migrant.<\/p>\n

The riot was quickly followed by violent disorder across the country – leading to more than 600 arrests by police.<\/a><\/p>\n

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer described the riots as “far-right thuggery,” with crowds targeting mosques and accommodation housing asylum seekers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On Tuesday, Rayner said 17 of the 18 worst-hit areas were among the most deprived in the UK.<\/p>\n

“While Britain was a successful multi-ethnic, multi-faith country, the government had to show it had a plan to address people’s concerns and provide opportunities for everyone to flourish,” she warned.<\/p>\n

A read out of the Cabinet meeting said Rayner told colleagues: “Economic insecurity, the rapid pace of de-industrialisation, immigration and the impacts on local communities and public services, technological change and the amount of time people were spending alone online, and declining trust in institutions was having a profound impact on society.”<\/p>\n

Rayner said it was “incumbent on the government to acknowledge the real concerns people have and to deliver improvements to people’s lives and their communities,” the readout said.<\/p>\n

Sir Keir said the country will never forget the “unimaginable tragedy” of the “horrific” Southport attacks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This week the government unveiled details of plans to impose life sentences on suspects found to be preparing mass killings<\/a> in an effort to prevent Southport style attacks from happening again.<\/p>\n

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the criminal justice system had to be given new tools to respond to violence-fixated individuals who are not motivated by a particular ideology.<\/p>\n

Cooper told the BBC that the government will “close the gap” between such offenders and lone, violence-obsessed individuals by giving police the power to apprehend them long before they can act.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On Sunday, police arrested six people<\/a> in connection with a protest outside a hotel used to house asylum seekers in Essex that has been running since Thursday.<\/p>\n

Bottles and smoke flares were thrown towards police vehicles during the demonstration which saw more than 1,000 people gathered outside the Bell Hotel in Epping.<\/p>\n

The protests followed the arrest and charge of an asylum seeker over an alleged sexual assault on a girl.<\/p>\n

The disorder followed the arrest and charge of an asylum seeker last week on suspicion of alleged sexual assaults in the town.<\/p>\n

Downing Street previously said the scenes at Epping were “unacceptable”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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