Rishi Sunak is still struggling to contain the fallout of Suella Braverman accusing the Metropolitan Police of having 'double standards' about how it manages protests.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has distanced himself from Home Secretary Suella Braverman 's criticism of the Metropolitan Police . Speaking this morning, Mr Hunt said: 'The words that she used are not words that I myself would have used.' In her article in The Times published on Wednesday, Ms Braverman likened pro-Palestinian demonstrations to marches seen in Northern Ireland , and accused the Met of holding ' double standards ' and being more lenient to left-wing protests .
' Read more:Sam Coates: A question of when - not if - Braverman leaves her jobMore than 1,000 officers drafted in to help MetBraverman scored a hat-trick of own goals and displayed breathtaking ignorance Mr Sunak had wanted the marches called off, but following a meeting on Wednesday with Sir Mark Rowley agreed they could go ahead. If the Met feels it cannot staff the demonstrations properly, it can apply to the home secretary who can then ban them from taking place.
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