Writing on the recent Leicester violence, Dr. Chris Allen writes for the Community Policy Forum that tensions between some of the city’s Hindus and Muslims have been deteriorating and have been exacerbated a decade of austerity measures and cuts to local services.
Allen also notes that:
- concerns were present within the city since at least 2019, so the city’s leadership has not been ‘unwarned’.
- the Home Secretary Suella Braverman visited Leicestershire Police on 22 September and called on the police to do their job “without fear or favour”.
- simultaneously, Conservative MP Bob Blackman sent a letter to Braverman blaming the disturbances on “Islamic extremists”, but he is a long-time supporter of the BJP in India.
Source: Leicester Disturbances Between Hindus and Muslims: An Explainer – Community Policy Forum
