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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Sophie Wingate

Calls to widen police power to ban pro-Palestine protests after synagogue attack

Police powers should be strengthened to ban “disgraceful” Pro-Palestine protests set to go ahead in the wake of the Manchester synagogue attack, the shadow home secretary has said.

Organisers of demonstrations in Manchester and London are defying calls by Sir Keir Starmer and police bosses to reconsider following the killing of two people in the terror attack.

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