Police chief ‘pressured over statement linking riots to migration'
Donna Jones, the police and crime commissioner for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, said the minister phoned her after she made the controversial comments in the wake of the disorder following the Southport attacks.
Jones said the newly appointed minister, whom she declined to name, told her 'you and I both know this has nothing to do with immigration', and asked her to take down the statement.
Jones believes the episode shows that the government is 'out of touch' and fears that anti-migrant hotel protests will escalate and 'parts of the country risk falling into a state of lawlessness'.
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