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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Daniel Boffey Chief reporter

Suella Braverman accuses police of double standards on rallies

The home secretary, Suella Braverman
The home secretary, Suella Braverman, claimed top officers seemed to be more interested in avoiding ‘flak’ than tackling mobs to ensure public safety. Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters

Suella Braverman has launched a full-throated attack on policing “double standards” after the head of the Metropolitan police gave the go-ahead for a pro-Palestine march on Saturday, Armistice Day.

The protests, which have brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets of London, were described by the home secretary as an unchallenged “assertion of primacy by certain groups – particularly Islamists”, in an article in the Times published on Wednesday night.

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