Ben O'Sullivan says this is a real issue.

"These thugs are mobile, they move from community to community, and we must have a police response that can do the same," he said.A former counter-terrorism police chief accused Reform UK leader Nigel Farage of helping incite the violence that broke out earlier this week, for a video he released on Tuesday in which he questioned “whether the truth is being withheld from us”.

Neil Basu – who was in charge of counter-terrorism at Scotland Yard from 2018 to 2021 – said there were “real world consequences” when public figures like the MP for Clacton failed to “keep their mouth shut”."That is a far-right politician once again trying to direct policing and law and order," Mr Basu told ITV's Good Morning Britain.Mr Farage insisted he had “merely expressed a sense of sadness and concern that is being felt by absolutely everybody I know – ‘what the hell is going on?’”

He added: “I think it’s perfectly reasonable to ask what is happening to law and order in our country."Civil rights campaign Big Brother Watch has expressed concern about the use of facial recognition technology, which the group's director Silkie Carlo described as "alarming" for democracy.

"Whilst common in Russia and China, live facial recognition is banned in Europe," she said.

"This AI surveillance turns members of the public into walking ID cards, is dangerously inaccurate and has no explicit legal basis in the UK."On Friday, on the 110th anniversary of their deaths, their family and a party from 2nd Battalion the Rifles visited the memorial to remember the missing brothers.

Keith Brooks, Pte Tame's great nephew, helped the Ministry of Defence's (MOD) Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC) to identify him by giving a DNA sample."John and his brothers Alfred and William have been remembered by the family from just photographs and vague memories from those who have now long passed," Mr Brooks said.

"Now, after finding John's remains, he is more than just a distant photograph. This has made him more real along with his story for future generations."This has all been achieved because of the excellent work the MOD do with all the research and investigations, giving missing people who have served their country the funeral they all greatly deserve."