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.
In an article for The Times, the home secretary also risks inflaming tensions further by claiming that the weekly pro-Palestininan protests were being used by Islamic extremists as an attempt to dominate the streets of London.
She compared what she described as the weekly “hate marches” by pro-Palestinian protesters to sectarian rallies held in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
Braverman claims in her article that senior police officers are biased in their policing of protests and employ a “double standard” whereby they take a significantly softer approach towards left-wing groups such as Black
