"Ever brick thrown began is Westminster," historian David Starkey has claimed as the social unrest in Britain rages on.

Over the past week, riots across a number of towns and cities have erupted following the death of three young girls at a Taylor Swift dance class.

False messaging on social media wrongly identified the suspected killer as an Islamist migrant and sparked a series of protests, with rioters targeting mosques and smashing windows of hotels housing asylum-seekers from Africa and the Middle East.

Speaking about the protests to Steven Edgington on GB News, Starkey said: "Our political class is reaping the whirlwind that it's sown."

He added: "All of this notion that there's a received higher doctrine, that there's no such thing as borders and that the borders are a bad thing, human rights mean were all really the same.

"A second generation Rwandan born in Wales is as Welsh as any. All this is lies, lies, lies.

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"It's because there's been lies, lies, lies from every part of the political spectrum that they're doing what they're doing.

"The protests are awful, they're disgraceful, they're shocking.

"But unfortunately, when people are shut up, when they're not allowed to debate publicly and when there aren't rational means of the objection, you get irrational ones.

"It's our political class that's reaping the whirlwind that it's sown. Every brick began in Westminster."

Speaking after an emergency meeting with ministers and police chiefs on Tuesday, Starmer said that the communities in the UK will be protected.

"Our first duty is to ensure our communities are safe," he told broadcasters.

"They will be safe. We are doing everything we can to ensure that where a police response is needed, it is in place, where support is needed for particular places, that is in place."

He said the fact that protests were being held in multiple locations made it difficult, but he had received the assurance he needed that police could cope with any disorder.

The government has increased prison capacity to cope with the large number of arrests made during the riots, which have prompted a growing number of countries to warn their citizens about the dangers of travelling in Britain.

Starmer said more than 400 people had been arrested, 100 had been charged, and he was expecting sentencing to start soon.

"Anybody involving themselves in this disorder is going to feel the full force of the law," he said.