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Hello and welcome to Coffey House shots, the Spectators Daily Politics

Podcast.

I'm Cindy Yu and today I'm joined by Katie Balls and Claire Fox Fox who's a non-affiliated peer and founder of the Academy of Ideas.

So tonight we're expecting more than a hundred protests across the country with the police saying that they have supplied

over 6,000 riot-trained officers to be on duty, which is the largest

mobilization since 2011. The riots seem to be going strong still. But Katie, the government has started to hit back, as it were,

with a series of sentences today handed out.

Tell us about those.

Yes, we're now getting a wave of sentences, guilty verdicts, and so forth.

Quite few people plead in guilty, actually.

Going through the courts, the first of which was yesterday.

And, you know, pictures going out online.

Clearly, they will want to talk about the number of people going through the courts as a way of

trying to add to the deterrent to those thinking about joining because I think tonight and we are speaking on Wednesday

has been viewed as a bit of a potentially turning point in the sense that their police are looking into a hundred potential incidents planned

gatherings this evening 30 potential counter gatherings in response to those and

therefore despite all the talks you know kids I'm saying everything is

fine and the police ready to go I think there is some nervousness in government

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