Barely a month in office, the Prime Minister had a real opportunity on Thursday to signal to many communities right across the country that he gets it, that he’s sensitive to their concerns about what they perceive as societal decay. Instead, he used his Downing Street news conference to double-down on the narrative that those involved in the protests of recent days, which ended in violence and disorder, were all far right. While any violence has got to be rightly condemned, surely there also has to be some acknowledgement of the growing community tensions, the disaffection that is fast reachi…
