Gaza protests: The new split in British politics?
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🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Suella Braverman has accused the Metropolitan Police of “playing favourites” with protesters as she clashed with Britain’s most senior officer over his decision to give the go-ahead to Saturday’s pro-Palestinian march. Her comments come after the government spent much of the past week on a collision course with protesters and the police over the protests planned for Saturday – Armistice Day – which Rishi Sunak confirmed last night would go ahead.
Meanwhile, a Labour frontbencher has resigned over his party’s position on a ceasefire. So, a month into the Israel-Gaza war, we explore how the conflict in the Middle East is exposing divisions in the UK.
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| 0:00.0 | Saturday's March is on. |
| 0:05.0 | March is on. |
| 0:07.0 | After spending much of the past week on a collision course with protesters, |
| 0:12.0 | last night Rishi Sunak said marches in support of |
| 0:16.0 | Palestinian people could go ahead on armistice day, but that won't be the end of the row. |
| 0:23.6 | The Home Secretary Sweller-Brahmerman has described the protests like this. |
| 0:33.8 | I think I've been pretty clear that these are hate marches. |
| 0:36.4 | To my mind there's only one way to describe those marches. |
| 0:39.2 | They are hate marches. |
| 0:41.6 | You call them hate marches. Do you think everyone on these marches is hateful, as you put it? |
| 0:46.0 | I don't think there's any other way but to call them hate marches. |
| 0:50.0 | And the head of the Metropolitan Police, who says the protests will be allowed to go ahead, |
| 0:55.0 | responded with this. |
| 0:58.0 | She's picked two words out in this language and strung them together in a way. |
| 1:01.0 | That's something that she's talking about. |
| 1:03.5 | I don't know whether she means everybody there |
| 1:06.0 | or some of the people there, that's not for me. |
| 1:07.8 | One two, three, four. |
| 1:09.8 | Occupation no more. Yeah, this is a decision that the Metropolitan Police Commissioner has made and he has said |
| 1:17.6 | that he can ensure that we safeguard remembrance for the country this weekend as well as keep the public safe. |
| 1:25.3 | Now my job as a hold him accountable for that. |
| 1:29.2 | Part of the dispute centers on a few key chance. One of them goes like this. |
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