Is the Met doing all it can to control the Palestine protests?

The Metropolitan police force is falling apart before our eyes. With it is going our sense of safety and security in our capital city, as we watch hate filled marches and what would be, in any other circumstances, criminal activity on London’s streets. The Met commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, recently went on national television and said that the Met was doing all it could to enforce up to the legal line, but it was up to politicians to draw those lines. Is Rowley right to suggest though the Met is doing all it can when it comes to the protests? No. And here’s why. 

Since the Thatcher era, successive governments have passed laws to control protests. The result is that we have today unprecedented powers to control London. What are these powers? Well, there are actually too many to list without coming across as an academic at a seminar asking ‘just a brief’ question.