On 7 August 2024, approximately 6,000 police officers are being deployed across the U.K. due to reports of roughly 100 protests planned in multiple cities, including 41 in England and Wales, by far-right groups later in the evening. Several local businesses and law offices have closed ahead of the probable unrest. The recent riots in England and Northern Ireland have been occurring over a knife attack at a dance workshop in the northwestern English town of Southport that resulted in the deaths of three minors. Far-right groups have targeted mosques and staged anti-immigration demonstrations due to widespread misinformation spread on social media platforms about the identity of the suspect arrested for the Southport attack.