This weekend saw a series of violent protests across the country with over one hundred arrests and dozens of police officers left injured.
The unrest emerged after three girls were killed in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club in Southport last Monday.
GB News Home and Security Editor Mark White delivered his analysis of the disorder spreading across the UK and how this could lead to “race wars.”
In Bolton on Sunday, a group of rival protestors, mostly including Muslim men, took to the streets shouting “Allahu Akbar” – a phrase meaning God is greatest – and throwing eggs at the police.
Watch: Mark White discusses potential “race wars” in the UK
The two groups of men met in another street in Bolton being kept apart by police lines but managed to throw bottles, broken tiles and launch fireworks at each other.
Speaking on the events, White said the “difficulty” in seeing groups of Muslim men coming out to try and confront the other protestors is that then this “could spark up a new wave that becomes effectively race wars at that point.”
White added: “What I will say about public order situations is they normally have a finite life span of about a week to ten days before those who are bent on violence get a bit bored. Move on.
“We’ve got the football season starting at the weekend as well. Maybe that will be a distraction for some of the more unruly elements.”
Speaking about the police response to the riots White said: “There’s been an evolution of policing in this country which has developed a public order policing model, which is one that doesn’t rally in unless they really have to push back rioting mobs.
“But to control a situation, we have a different policing model to that in France, for instance, where they will bring in the water cannon, where they will fire tear gas regularly, and indeed baton rounds. We don’t do that. Some may say that we should have a tougher policing model.”
A group of rival protestors, mostly including Asian men, took to the streets shouting “Allahu Akbar” on the day of a protest against illegal immigration in Bolton
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White added: “There’s definitely an issue about how well-resourced and able the police are to deal with disorder.
“If it continues to spread and spreads to multiple locations in a significant way, because there are about 4000 public order trained officers scattered across the country in about 130 odd units, they will after a while get very exhausted because of the very nature of having to wear all of this equipment in the heat and deal with this onslaught continually.
“It will exhaust them after a period of time.”
Finally, White ruled out bringing in military personnel at the moment stating: “They’re not going to bring in the army at this stage.
“It’s possible further down the road. Military personnel could be used to sort of take over some of the policing functions at guard duties and things like that. If they need to move some of the armed officers into public order teams they wouldn’t be armed.
“At that point, obviously they would take up a public order role, but we’re not looking at that yet.”