After a week of right-wing riots, the new British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is apparently determined to take a tough stand against the perpetrators. He wants to mobilize an “army of police” and promises swift punishments.
At the beginning of the week, at the end of which the Prime Minister actually wanted to go on holiday, he called a “Cobra meeting” in London. Cobra is an acronym, it stands for “Cabinet Office Briefing Room A” and refers to one of the rooms in London's Whitehall government district, which – along with other rooms – is always used when there is a crisis. At these meetings, the Prime Minister discusses the situation with the most important representatives and ministers. This means that when the British Prime Minister calls a Cobra meeting, it is serious. Keir Starmer was appointed the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom exactly one month ago this Monday. A crisis meeting after only 31 days in office: “Honeymoon's over,” wrote the political magazine on Monday. Politico. The honeymoon is over.
