British Prime Minister Keir Starmer today called for no relaxation of efforts against far-right violence that has rocked the United Kingdom for a week, following an “impressive” calm marked by peaceful anti-racism protests.

With law enforcement fearing dozens of new anti-immigrant rallies and violent incidents, thousands of people demonstrated in several cities last Wednesday night to voice their opposition to racism and Islamophobia.

“It is important not to relax” efforts, said the head of the British government who will chair a new meeting with senior police officers later today.

May last night be gone”much better than expected“, Nevertheless “we will not give up our efforts“, he continued, sending a stern message after visiting a mosque in Solihull (central England).

For his part, the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan thanked in a message on Platform X those who demonstrated peacefully to demonstrate that the capital is “united against racism and Islamophobia”, as well as the “heroic” police officers “who work day and night to ensure the safety of Londoners”.

London’s chief constable Mark Rowley said he was “really happy with the way things turned out” thanks to police deployment and residents.

He greeted, in front of the journalists, “demonstration of unity“, although in “some places local lawbreakers came” to indulge in “anti-social acts”.

More than 400 people have been arrested since the outbreak began and more than 120 of them have been charged in England and Wales, prosecutors said.

The first sentences, which reach up to three years in prison, began to fall yesterday.

Today, two men arrested in raids last week were jailed for two years and eight months.

For a week, scenes of racist violence have been playing out in the UK after information spread that was partially disproved about the profile of the alleged perpetrator of a knife attack during a dance class in which three little girls aged between six and nine were killed in Southport (west England).

The suspect was identified on social media as a Muslim asylum seeker. He was actually born in Cardiff, Wales, and his family, according to British media, is originally from Rwanda.