The former boss of civil rights group Liberty has urged the government to consider banning the ‘Patriot Platform’ group behind anti-migrant protests that saw masked and hooded men descend on Dover and Portsmouth.
Shami Chakrabarti, who was Labour’s shadow attorney general between 2016 and 2020, hit out at the group she says “appears explicitly to intend and incite violence and intimidation”, and whose uniforms “signify a private army”.
