The Policing minister has continued Labour’s attacks on Nigel Farage after there were violent clashes between protesters and the police in Southampton last night in the aftermath of Henry Nowak’s murder. Two arrests were made as protesters gathered around a Southampton police station and eventually the site of Nowak’s murder…
Asked on BBC Breakfast what she made of Farage’s call for “cold rage“, Jones said:
“I just think they’re so unhelpful. I think of course when you when you look at that footage and you know I’ve got boys myself when I look at that footage it’s it’s awful and and you feel a kind of a a visceral response an anger that is that is there and that is that is right to feel but to try and take those emotional responses that we’re all having and stir it into a call to action that is going to divide us even further is so irresponsible. And I would just say to all politicians, you know, we words matter. We need to be careful what we say. We need to let the IOPC do their job and we need to respect what the family have asked us to do.”
Kemi Badenoch is continuing to call simply for “equality under the law“, and Reform has announced it will pass an “Equal Treatment Act” to abolish DEI practices in the police as well as the exemption on religious knife carrying. All while fighting off attacks for its new ad – first revealed in Guido’s The Right Angle…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”