Emily Maitlis

We've seen, as you say, houses torched, a bus torched, burnt down.

There have been attacks and a sense of...

Real unrest for many of those residents living around the area and wider throughout the city of Belfast that they are not safe in their homes.

Because of the anger that this particular crime has really triggered.

As you can see, the whole issue is basically a tinderbox for the parties, particularly of the right, who want to make this about illegal immigration, even though it isn't.

From what we understand, the man was an asylum seeker.

But I think there is a danger, and many Northern Ireland politicians feel, that it is being weaponised by parties of the right now, particularly because...

Immigration as a whole in the UK, legal immigration, has gone down.

The numbers have gone down.

And there are parties of the right, particularly Reform, particularly Restore, the sort of sister party of Reform, feel that their power starts to wane when the British public don't care as much about immigration.

So, you know, the violence on the streets overnight is really a manifestation of, I think, so many things.

The infiltration of big money and political actors, not least Elon Musk, and the politicians who are trying to both respond to what happened and not feel that they are taken down a road where they are guilty.

talking now about immigration and illegal immigration when that wasn't fundamentally at the heart of this.

Look, the question you're asking is how much of a factor does the richest man in the world with all his Nazi friends getting involved in what is essentially a local crime play right now in British politics or indeed in world politics?

You know, it was a problem.

For the German elections when Elon Musk jumped in and wanted the AfD, the alternative for Deutschland, to win.

It was a problem, you know, for Hungary when we saw Elon Musk and Trump and Vance try and support Orban and keep him in power.

This is what happens when all the kind of the wealth in the world is going into trying to manipulate democracies and politics.

And that is what happens when he says this is an invasion.

Go and do what you need to do.