The Home Secretary Suella Braverman caused controversy this week when she wrote an apparently unauthorised article for the Times accusing the police of bias ahead of Armistice Day and the planned pro-Palestine rally. That march went ahead despite the wishes of some members of parliament. The police had to deal with violence from what was described as ‘far-right groups’ who converged on the Cenotaph as well as disorder from some of the pro-Palestine marchers.
Trevor Phillips asked Defence Secretary Grant Shapps if Braverman’s actions might have made it harder for the police to maintain peace. Shapps paid tribute to the police, but claimed that far-right groups had already announced they were going to be there before Braverman’s article and drew attention to people on the pro-Palestine march ‘celebrating what terrorists have done’.
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The shadow home secretary had a rather different point of view, arguing that Braverman had undermined the police and inflamed tensions.
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