A Met Police chief appeared to hit back at Suella Braverman’s meddling over this weekend’s March for Palestine protest, saying the force is “very clear” about its operational independence.
Speaking at a London Assembly policing meeting yesterday, assistant commissioner for Met operations Louisa Rolfe said officers were focused on “upholding the law” after being asked whether the comments of “some politicians” were making their jobs harder.
The meeting came after home secretary Suella Braverman had ramped up pressure on Met commissioner Mark Rowley to ban this weekend’s protest, which falls on Armistice Day, controversially labelling it a “hate march” and a display of “thuggish intimidation and extremism”.
