Rishi Sunak has condemned pro-Palestine protesters who staged a demonstration outside Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer’s home on Tuesday.
In a post to X, formerly Twitter, the Prime Minister said: “I don’t care what your politics are, no MP should be harassed at their own home.
“We cannot and will not tolerate this.”
He spoke out after members of campaign group Youth Demand hung a sign outside the Labour leader’s north London home saying “Starmer stop the killing”.
In a video posted online, one member of the group asked the leader of the opposition to use his “enormous power” and “enormous influence” to call for an arms embargo on Israel.
They also held a sit-down protest with a Palestinian flag and arranged rows of childrens shoes outside the house - a tactic that has been utilised at a number of pro-Palestine protests to signify children killed in Gaza.
In a statement from Youth Demand, one of the participants in the demonstration, student Ella Ward, 21, said: “In normal circumstances it would be seen as crossing a line to show up at someone’s house, but these are not normal circumstances and we can’t continue with business as usual.
“I’m taking action to call on Starmer to commit to stopping the killing.”
The Metropolitan Police said three people were arrested on Tuesday under Section 42 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001, a power designed to “stop the harassment of a person at their home address”.
It comes after activists from the same group sprayed Labour’s headquarters with red paint.
Youth Demand demonstrators insisted both the Government and Opposition should commit to preventing the supply of weapons to the country as they targeted the party’s offices in central London.
Labour has said arms exports to Israel should be suspended if ministers have received legal advice it has breached international law, but has resisted backing an embargo without seeing the guidance.
The Government has come under increased pressure in recent days to publish the advice it has been given following an attack which killed seven aid workers in Gaza, including three Britons.
Youth Demand, which is calling for an arms embargo as well as an end to oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, said three of its supporters had sprayed the outside of Labour’s head office while another painted the lobby.
