Live: Northern Ireland's Assembly recalled as UK riots intensify

Stormont is recalled on Thursday, 8 August, as Northern Ireland politicians discuss far-right rioting seen in Belfast over the weekend.
MLAs have returned from summer recess for an Assembly sitting to discuss recent scenes of violence on the city's streets.
It comes as the Irish Congress of Trade Unions is set to lead a rally outside Parliament Buildings in opposition to the rioting seen in the capital on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday evenings following the disorder.
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[@jennyjohnson7751]

I wish I could leave, but my husband is Northern Irish and he refuses to leave. I can't cope with my child alone who has uncontrolled seizures and autism. It gets extremely scary for me to deal with alone. My son has got persecuted for his sudden illness that happened when he was nine years old after reacting to a nasal flu mist. Suddenly he got serious seizures and autism with regression. He is now almost twenty years old and because of home schooling, has turned him into an almost recluse. ...

[@jennyjohnson7751]

I will never stop saying what happened to my son. Never.

[@1Americanhere]

So is Humza Yousaf going to jail for making racial comments with the intent to create discord and rioting?

[@inout3513]

The people were united on a protest, correct me if im wrong was there not tricolours being flown alongside the union flag and the ulster flag

[@QUEEG500_]

Starmer wouldn't dare recall his parliament...