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Sir Keir Starmer is dealing with mounting criticism this morning after it emerged he’s planning to depart for his first vacation as Prime Minister regardless of the rioting disaster.

The revelations of the Prime Minister’s plan for a summer time break emerged final evening, with Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner set to take the helm of Government in his place.

However the timing of the break echoes considerations voiced when he pledged in the course of the election marketing campaign to try to take Friday evenings off for household time.

This morning, Tory management contender Robert Jenrick condemned the PM’s selection as “completely wrong”.

Mr Jenrick blasted: “It would be completely wrong of the Prime Minister to go on holiday whilst parts of Britain are burning”.

He insisted: “This is a very serious situation, and we need the Prime Minister to be leading the country, the police need our full support and need to know that he is there supporting them, making sure this situation is being handled from the very top”.

Asked why Ms Rayner’s deputising wouldn’t be enough, Mr Jenrick emphasised that the disaster is so severe it have to be dealt with by the Prime Minister personally.

It is known that the Prime Minister is working this weekend, and can be in Downing Street subsequent week, earlier than happening vacation.

However Mr Jenrick’s criticism echoed considerations from his fellow management rivals that Sir Keir Starmer’s response has been missing.

The Government’s disaster centre, COBRA, remains to be but to be convened, regardless of Labour making hay out of Boris Johnson’s failure to attend its conferences at the beginning of the Covid pandemic.

This morning, Home Office minister Diana Johnson insisted a COBRA assembly just isn’t on the playing cards at current, saying she’s “not aware” of any plans however insisting the PM is holding conferences with chief constables and senior ministers to coordinate a response.

However former safety minister Tom Tugendhat slammed the failure to carry a gathering of the disaster centre regardless of six days of great unrest.

Mr Tugendhat fumed: “Day 6. Why hasn’t a COBR been called? Still no plan from Government on ending the violence on our streets”.

“Extremism and lawlessness cannot be tolerated. This has to stop.

“What is taking Labour so long?”

He warned that legislation and order is “at risk” and the Government “must act before this situation spirals further out of control”.

Meanwhile Priti Patel went additional, demanding that Parliament be recalled to debate the disaster.

The former Home Secretary mentioned that boasting that the nation is “braced for disorder” is “not only breathtakingly complacent, but both troubling and inadequate”.

“The Government is now in danger of appearing to be swept away with events rather than maintaining control of them.”

She demanded parliament be recalled so MPs can name out the violence and “speak with one voice in condemnation”.

This morning a Labour MP defending Sir Keir’s plans to jet off in per week’s time, and insisted that the Prime Minister “has to have family time”

Chris Webb, MP for Blackpool South, insisted that the PM can be “continuing to work and monitor the situation” from holiday”, and promised: “we’ve got an excellent Deputy Prime Minister”.