The Prime Minister has said he is considering a ban on some pro-Palestine marches, and wants ‘tougher action’ on certain phrases used on those marches, such as the chant ‘globalise the intifada’. This comes after a series of attacks on the Jewish community, including the stabbing of two Jewish men in Golders Green on Wednesday. On Sky News this morning, Trevor Phillips asked Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander whether the government planned to outlaw specific words.

Alexander said the government have given the police more powers to ‘deal with protests’, and supported Keir Starmer’s suggestion that individuals on marches have a responsibility to challenge hateful language. Alexander said that the Home Secretary would take ‘tough action’ after she has looked at Lord Ken Macdonald’s review into UK protests, and didn’t rule out a ban on some words and phrases.

Heidi Alexander: ‘It was disgusting what he (Polanski) did and absolutely abhorrent’

In the aftermath of the Golders Green stabbings, Green Party leader Zack Polanski retweeted a........

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