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, Westminster Council and the Metropolitan Police setting out his concerns about the event, which is due to take place on Saturday, November 11.That is also Armistice Day, which marks the end of fighting in the First World War. A two-minute silence will be held at 11am.
He said: “I know that many of my fellow veterans will be looking forward to that day, not a day of joy but a day of grief. It’s a day when many of us remember those who aren’t standing with us, who aren’t there to lay a wreath, who aren’t there with their friends to have a beer afterwards and talk about the old days.
Tugendhat said that in his letters, he had asked Sadiq Khan, Westminster Council and the Met to “look very carefully at the powers that they have and to consider what options they have available” with regard to the November 11 march.Asked if the protest should be banned, Tugendhat said: “I think protest is incredibly important in a free society.
Friends of Al-Aqsa is planning to bus protestors from Leicester to London to take part in the march calling for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas.
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