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Will Mark Rowley ban the pro-Palestine protests?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Rishi Sunak met with Met Commissioner Mark Rowley today to discuss the pro-Palestine protests planned for the Remembrance weekend. Sunak has called the marches ‘disrespectful’, and said he would hold Rowley ‘accountable’ for not banning them. Will the Commissioner change his mind?

Isabel Hardman speaks to Katy Balls and Danny Shaw, former home affairs correspondent for the BBC. 

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Hello and welcome to coffeehouse shots,

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the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

0:24.0

I'm Isabel Hardman and I'm joined by Katie Bulls and Danny Shaw.

0:28.0

Now Rishi Sunak has criticized the police's decision not to ban a planned march on Saturday from

0:37.2

pro-Palestinian groups in London. This is what the Prime Minister had to say earlier today.

0:42.0

This is a decision that the Metropolitan Police Commissioner has made and he has said that he can

0:48.0

ensure that he safeguards remembrance for the country this weekend as well as keep the public safe.

0:54.4

Now my job as to hold him accountable for that and we've asked the police for

0:57.7

information on how they will ensure that this happens. You know my view is that

1:01.5

these marches are disrespectful and that's what I'll be discussing

1:05.7

with the police commission later today.

1:08.2

Danny Shaw, what do you make of this disrespect argument? There's lots of potential arguments

1:15.0

against this march. This is quite an interesting new core argument for

1:19.8

banning something. Well for a start a March cannot be banned simply because it's seen as

1:27.7

being disrespectful or offensive or that it might be inconvenient, those are not grounds to ban a march, either in law or I think most people would probably say morally ethically simply because it's disrespectful so it's peculiar that

1:45.7

Rishisuna should raise that as a possibility the only grounds upon which the

1:51.1

Met police can apply to the Home Secretary to ban a march is if there's a risk of

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