The Met has admitted to making mistakes during the pro-Palestine protests, a report released by Policy Exchange reveals today. Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist told the think tank that the force “didn’t get everything right,” admitting, “on occasion, we did not move quickly to make arrests — for example, the man chanting for ‘jihad.’” A reminder: policing these protests from October until June still cost the taxpayer £42.9 million…

Unsurprisingly, the report also shows that three-quarters of people polled believe the police should actually do their jobs and step in when roads are blocked, public transport grinds to a halt, or when protestors climb a monument (something eco-activists and pro-Palestinians had a penchant for doing). Twist, however, brushed off any talk of “two-tier” policing, offering the baffling claim that there are actually an “infinite number of tiers of policing” instead. Hardly reassuring…