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Evening Standard
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Anthony France

Suella Braverman urges police to get tougher on Just Stop Oil activists

Home Secretary Suella Braverman was speaking the NPCC’s joint annual conference (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

(Picture: PA Wire)

Police forces are failing in their duty to crack down on Just Stop Oil activists disrupting the M25 motorway, the Home Secretary said as she called for a focus on “common sense policing”.

Suella Braverman also vowed to take “scissors to red tape” to cut down on bureaucracy when she spoke to chief constables at a summit in Westminster, telling them officers should not be facing “politically correct” distractions and to embrace a “back to basics approach”.

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