Cameron’s ‘fightback’ begins with extended police powers

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron said, after four nights of violence, a fightback was under way yesterday.

Speaking in Downing Street after chairing a meeting of the Government’s Cobra emergency committee, Mr Cameron said: “We needed a fightback, and a fightback is under way.”

He said officers would be given the resources and legal backing to use the tactics they felt were necessary to deal with the riots.