Sir Keir Starmer Golders Green incident 🇬🇧
by Larry : Pop Trends
Sir Keir Starmer was booed by protesters in Golders Green today, and tehre's questions if he's done everything to keep the Jewish community safe and if he owes an apology.
Transcript (en)
You've just been heckled on a visit to Goldose Green. One of the victims of this attack says he feels let down and the government isn't doing its job to make Jewish people feel safe. Can you say hand on heart that you have done everything you can and do you owe the Jewish community in the UK an apology? Well, can I start by saying I absolutely understand the high levels of anxiety and concern that there are. reflected in the various reactions over the last day or two. I completely understand. That anxiety has been there for a very long time, and the appalling terrorist attack yesterday made it worse. In terms of what we've done, we have called an emergency cobra yesterday to make sure that we're coordinating the response and putting the necessary security in place. I pulled together the various criminal justice agencies this morning to make sure that together we can show that justice will be swift, effective and visible to give confidence to people. We had already put in enhanced funding for security and we put more funding in now We looking at what further measures we can take on protests particularly in relation to chants to banners and the repeated nature of protests We're, of course, looking at what more needs to be done in health and education. And we will fast-track powers to deal with malign state actors. So there is a lot that is being done. Of course we need to do everything we can, but we do also need to ensure that this is something the whole country is prepared to call out, to see and to fight against. Thank you. I'll take PA. Prime Minister, the police have said that the suspect in this case had previously been referred to Prevent. This looks like another failure for that programme. can we trust that Prevent can keep us safe from extremism? The investigation is obviously still ongoing and so we haven't got all the facts yet.
