Keir Starmer is in the pocket of the eco mob, Suella Braverman claims trends now
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Suella Braverman blasted Sir Keir Starmer as being in the pocket of the eco mob as his party tries to block a crackdown on disruptive protests.
The Home Secretary wants to give police greater powers to tackle ‘selfish’ road-blocking stunts that bring cities to a standstill and lead to clashes with fed-up motorists.
Writing in the Mail, Mrs Braverman revealed that Just Stop Oil’s current campaign of 124 slow walks has taken up 12,500 police officer shifts, preventing them from catching serious criminals, while the mob’s antics cost police more than £14 million last year.
But her planned legal change – introducing a new definition of ‘serious disruption’ to cover the impact on anyone caught up in traffic jams caused by the environmental activists – will be opposed by Labour leader Sir Keir, and his MPs are expected to vote against it in the Commons.
It could even be killed off in the Lords tomorrow by peers, who are angry that the Government is bringing back legislation that the Upper House rejected a few months ago, while the equality watchdog last night warned it risked undermining the democratic right to peaceful protest.
The Home Secretary wants to give police greater powers to tackle ‘selfish’ road-blocking stunts that bring cities to a standstill and lead to clashes with fed-up motorists
Mrs Braverman blasted Sir Keir Starmer as being in the pocket of the eco mob as his party tries to block a crackdown on disruptive protests
But Mrs Braverman accused the Opposition of going easy on the activists after taking £1.5 million in donations from green tycoon Dale Vince, who bankrolls Just Stop Oil, Extinction Rebellion and Animal Rising.
She said: ‘A selfish minority is finding new ways to cause havoc and misery. That is deeply unfair on the law-abiding majority, who must be able to
