Yeah, well, let me just show you first what the situation is this morning outside this holiday inn. You can see on the ground the glass, the shard of glass from where the rioters smashed in the windows, chairs, flung about the place, fire extinguishers, which were used as weapons at one point yesterday. Alcohol cans. We know from speaking to local residents that they felt that the crowd yesterday was drunk, that some members of them were drunk. If you look in these smashed-in windows here. I mean, this is a communal space where asylum seekers would have normally, on a weekend, been hanging out, been eating, now completely destroyed. You've got security staff and staff at the hotel now trying to clean this up, which is presumably going to take a while. We just spoke to the Secretary of Defense, the local MP here as well, John Healey, who said that it was his understanding that all of the asylum seekers had been cleared from the hotel yesterday. But speaking to security here, I just found out that there was a small group of asylum seekers, about four of them, who had been out when those riots kicked off yesterday.

It sounds like they'd come back and seen that there was trouble and had ended up having to sleep rough. Apparently, they slept in a wood last night because they were so scared of coming back here. I think we cannot underestimate how terrifying this must have been for the residents of these hotel asylum seekers, families, presumably, parents, and potentially young children children barricaded in their rooms as an angry mob broke down the windows. Also, I think one of the most shocking pieces of footage to emerge from yesterday was a moment when rioters set a bin on fire and pushed it against one of the doors. They knew people were trapped in here, and clearly, they were using that opportunity to scare them, and you would assume to do something particularly dangerous, maybe even deadly. Now, I asked the Secretary of Defense, John Healey, what he thought about bringing in the army to manage any potential future riots like this. This is what he said.

No, I was down here throughout yesterday, and with the backup teams, South Yorkshire police were strongly supported by police forces from West Yorkshire, from Cheshire. Even the British Transport Police came. That established system of what they call mutual aid, where you've got police forces coordinating together, training with the same public order, street disorder techniques. It's the police's responsibility to respond first. And currently, they've got the means to do it, and they will make sure that people stay. Thanks very much.