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Government warns that rioters ‘will pay the price’ as wave of violence sweeps UK

Disorder spread through several UK cities on Saturday, Yvette Cooper said, pledging full support for police

Rioters will “pay the price” for the wave of violent clashes that has spread across the UK, ministers warned on Saturday, after a day in which police battled rival groups of demonstrators in the worst outbreak of civil disorder in Britain for more than a decade.

Home secretary Yvette Cooper said the police would have the government’s full support to take the strongest possible action. “Criminal violence and disorder have no place on Britain’s streets,” she said.

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