The home secretary, Suella Braverman, chose the populist road in the run-up to yesterday’s march in London to protest against Israel’s military action in Gaza: to throw caution to the wind, deploy inflammatory language and hint darkly at the worst-case scenarios that might take shape.
But the marches, involving hundreds of thousands of people, have been peaceful and complied with conditions imposed on them by the police.
That is not to say that every marcher supports a peaceful two-state solution in the Middle East; some have adopted chants associated with the Hamas charter commitment to destroy Israel.
Come out they did: there were several skirmishes between the far right and the police in central London yesterday morning in the run-up to the two-minute silence, with masked men chanting Islamophobic slogans yards from the Cenotaph, and arrests were made.
There were further violent clashes in the afternoon, and the police had to work hard to prevent far-right protesters from confronting the marchers.
As prime minister, he is ultimately responsible for his home secretary’s behaviour: her undermining of the operational independence of the police and her stoking of tensions at a highly sensitive time, in a way that appears to coincide with what she believes to be in furtherance of her ambition to one day lead the Conservative party.
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The home secretary, Suella Braverman, chose the populist road in the run-up to yesterday’s march in London to protest against Israel’s military action in Gaza: to throw caution to the wind, deploy inflammatory language and hint darkly at the worst-case scenarios that might take shape.
But the marches, involving hundreds of thousands of people, have been peaceful and complied with conditions imposed on them by the police.
That is not to say that every marcher supports a peaceful two-state solution in the Middle East; some have adopted chants associated with the Hamas charter commitment to destroy Israel.
Come out they did: there were several skirmishes between the far right and the police in central London yesterday morning in the run-up to the two-minute silence, with masked men chanting Islamophobic slogans yards from the Cenotaph, and arrests were made.
There were further violent clashes in the afternoon, and the police had to work hard to prevent far-right protesters from confronting the marchers.
As prime minister, he is ultimately responsible for his home secretary’s behaviour: her undermining of the operational independence of the police and her stoking of tensions at a highly sensitive time, in a way that appears to coincide with what she believes to be in furtherance of her ambition to one day lead the Conservative party.
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