Starmer's Waterloo?
Talk Breakfast
Ricky Freelove
4.3 • 763 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Mark Dolan reacts as London police are deploying 4,000 officers as rival Tommy Robinson-led and pro-Palestine protests raise serious disorder fears. The Met will use drones, live facial recognition, riot gear and standby armoured vehicles to keep groups apart. The Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer warned troublemakers face the full force of law, as prosecutors target hate speech offences.
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| 0:00.0 | Ezra Levant is an international broadcaster and he's been banned from coming into the UK and participating in the United Kingdom March. |
| 0:17.0 | Here's what the Prime Minister has had to say on the issue. My government will not stand in the way of peaceful protest, but we will act decisively against hatred. |
| 0:27.6 | We will use the full force of the law when that hatred manifests as violence. |
| 0:32.6 | And we will ban those coming into the UK who seek to stir it up as we have done already |
| 0:39.8 | because this country belongs to all of us and I will not tolerate anyone who seeks to stand |
| 0:47.8 | in the way of that. Well there you go you are listening to Talk Breakfast and this is a massive exploding global story. |
| 0:56.9 | And it is Ezra Levant, who is a journalist and the publisher of Rebel News. |
| 1:04.4 | He said he's suing Keir Stama a few days ago. |
| 1:08.0 | Stama illegally put me on a blacklist, he writes. |
| 1:12.2 | He's banned me from entering the UK. He's done it just days before the massive rally in London this weekend. Ezra Levant joins me now. |
| 1:19.1 | Good morning, Ezra. Hi there, and I'm sorry that I'm not with you in London. I'm in Canada's |
| 1:24.9 | 1.30 a.m. I love the United Kingdom. I've been traveling there |
| 1:28.9 | probably two dozen times in the last 10 years to do journalism and to follow the interesting |
| 1:35.9 | character of Tommy Robinson, who's become a friend. I've never committed a crime in my life, |
| 1:41.1 | never been charged with a crime in my life, never engaged in hateful acts. |
| 1:45.6 | I'm not far right. I know in the UK that is sort of code for being anti-Semitic or pro-Nazi. |
| 1:51.5 | I'm Jewish myself, actually. This is not a legitimate ban. This is Kier-Starmer trying to lash out at |
| 2:00.5 | his critics, but more than that, I think he's |
| 2:03.0 | trying to distract from, I think it's a 16% approval in the polls. |
| 2:08.2 | I think he actually wants there to be an incident tomorrow. |
| 2:11.0 | He's certainly talking a lot about it. |
| 2:12.9 | It's as if he thinks he can have some sort of January 6th crisis that can turn him into a hero again |
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