Sir Keir Starmer cancels European summer holiday so he can deal with wave of violent riots

SIR Keir Starmer has canceled his summer holiday to deal with the spate of violent riots.

The Prime Minister had planned to travel to Europe with wife Lady Vic and their two children on their first holiday since the general election.

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But instead he will split the next week between Downing Street and his Buckinghamshire country home, Chequers.

A No10 source said: “Keir is first and foremost a public servant. He leads a government focused on helping workers and keeping them safe.

“That’s why, like countless police officers who have canceled leave to quell violence, he will continue working next week to keep the country safe.

“Make no mistake, self-interested government is over. Public service government is back.”

Former prime minister Boris Johnson said Sir Keir should go on a summer getaway as his leadership “made no difference”.

But when he was mayor of London, Johnson initially rejected calls to return from his vacation when looters took to the streets in 2011.

And in 2021, then Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was heavily criticized when he failed to return from a peaceful break in Crete as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban.

Raab was forced to deny reports that he was paddleboarding during the chaos.