Hooligans found to be taking part in far-right violence across the UK could be banned from football stadiums, reports have suggested.

Riots and protests have broken out in locations across the UK - including the likes of London and Liverpool - over the past week following a knife attack in Southport last Monday (July 29).

Scenes of violence, vandalism, burning police cars and projectiles being thrown at mosques have flooded people's news feeds over the past few days as violence across the country continues to escalate.

Now football clubs are reportedly actively looking at introducing banning orders for those involved in the disorder.

Speaking about potential match bans for those involved in rioting, Home Office minister Dame Diana Johnson said football clubs do not want those implicated in disorder “in their stands on a Saturday”.

The minister told LBC Radio: “I think all options are being looked at, to be honest, and I am pretty clear that most football clubs do not want to be seen to have football hooligans and people carrying out criminal acts on the streets of the local communities in their stands on a Saturday.

“So I think that’s a very live debate that’s going on at the moment, and I think there are consequences for people’s bad behaviour on our streets and their criminal activity, and if that’s what football clubs or rugby clubs choose to do, that’s a matter for them, but all tactics and all options should be looked at.”

The comments come after a night of counter demonstrations that were “on the whole peaceful” and showed that the majority of people in the UK are “tolerant” and “respect the police”, the minister said.

She told the BBC: “I think this country has a tradition, doesn’t it, of peaceful protests and I think last night was an example of that.

“Now clearly, because of what has happened in previous days, we were very anxious that we didn’t add to the burden on the police by having to police counter-demonstrations and protests, but luckily last night, everything on the whole was peaceful, so that’s important.

“But I think what last night illustrated was the vast majority of people in this country are law-abiding, are tolerant, respect the police, want their communities to be ones that are safe for all communities and I think that that was demonstrated last night by some of what we saw on the streets with those people who came forward to make their views clear.”