Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reminds Jeremy Corbyn he once called Hamas his 'friends' after the disgraced former Labour leader posed a question about the Government's efforts to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza.
The Prime Minister told MPs hateful extremism has no place in our societyChanting 'jihad' is a threat to British democracy, Rishi Sunak says, as Met Police officers are understood to be 'frustrated' by their inability to make arrests at a pro-Palestinian protest.
Earlier, Tory MP Gareth Bacon said British Jews were increasingly feeling unsafe in their own country with the 'apparent refusal of the Metropolitan Police to do anything about it' making matters worse. READ MORE: Rishi Sunak tells the Met he expects it to tackle extremism 'head on' amid deepening row with top cop Mark Rowley over light-touch policing of calls for 'Jihad' and anti-Semitic chanting at pro-Palestine protest in London Advertisement 'Of course the police are operationally independent, but the home secretary has raised this with them.'
Hizb ut-Tahrir is an Islamic fundamentalist group that has called for the re-establishment of an Islamic caliphate and for the global implementation of sharia law. It has been banned in almost all Arab countries, as well as Muslim-majority nations such as Turkey, Bangladesh and Indonesia. The Met later tweeted that the word 'jihad' had 'multiple meanings'. Twitter users added a community note under the Met's post
By contrast, Mr Sunak insisted in the Commons that police already have the powers they need to arrest those inciting violence or racial hatred.
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