CALLS to evacuate Parliament and let MPs work from home due to protesters have been branded “surrender” to the mob.
Labour’s Harriet Harman sparked fury with a plea to return to a Covid-style video-based Commons.
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It came after an anti-Israel horde recently descended on the Palace of Westminster.
Chief Con Chris Noble, of the National Police Chiefs’ Council, said protesters were “attacking the fabric and processes of our democracy” and cops will “deal robustly” with unreasonable demonstrations.
And Cabinet Office Minister Alex Burghart hit out: “We must not surrender the Houses of Parliament to them.”
Ms Harman told LBC MPs worried about their safety should be able to “speak in their constituencies and vote online”. She highlighted the murders of Labour MP Jo Cox and Tory MP David Amess.
No10 said PM Rishi Sunak believed Ms Harman was wrong and he would not “want to see anything that restricts debate on the floor of the House”.
The Home Office announced it will spend £31million protecting MPs and democracy against threats, as revealed yesterday by The Sun.
It came as a man was arrested yesterday for sending a death threat to Reform candidate Simon Danczuk in Thursday’s Rochdale by-election, calling him “white devil”.
Meanwhile, MP Lee Anderson said Mr Sunak made a “mistake” in stripping him of the Conservative whip after he accused London’s mayor of being controlled by Islamists.
He did not rule out standing for Reform UK after talks with leader Richard Tice at a Holiday Inn in Derbyshire.
US President Joe Biden said he expects a breakthrough in an Israel/Hamas ceasefire deal “by next Monday”.
THE SUN SAYS: REALITY BITES
THE liberal Left’s cosy delusions finally smashed into the brick wall of reality yesterday . . . and blew up.
Faced with an extremist and Islamist horde outside Parliament threatening MPs, veteran Labour hand-wringer Harriet Harman seriously suggested that she and her colleagues should hide.
That our elected politicians should abandon Westminster to work, and vote, from home to avoid the anti- Semitic mobs bringing fear to our streets with near-impunity.
She wants, in effect, to hand these thugs total victory — a process begun by Keir Starmer’s reckless parlour games last week.
The Left — the opposition parties, civil service and broadcast media giants — and even some super-liberal Tories simply cannot handle what years of their naivety has wrought.
Being “inclusive” and tolerant even towards those who loathe Britain, Western values and Jews especially is the fast track to the disintegration of the liberal democracy we hold dear.
Yet even now, with that threat crystal clear, they put their fingers in their ears. They attack anyone daring to speak out. They throw up smokescreens . . . pretending, absurdly, that our only REAL problems are right-wing extremism and Tory “Islamophobia”.
They obsess about Lee Anderson’s over-the-top remarks, even though he was swiftly sacked. Day after day the BBC and Sky led bulletins and websites with that — not the baying extremists openly backing Hamas terrorists.
An inconvenient report from the Home Affairs Committee, revealing that the hate marches have cost us a staggering £25million and are damaging policing, went all but ignored by the BBC.
A top cop said yesterday that the “fabric and processes of our democracy” are in peril and these mobs must be curbed. Dead right. Chief constables must be ordered to sweep the jihadists off our streets.
They have been allowed to terrify Jews, and non-Jews, far too long. And our MPs must NOT cave in. It is unthinkable.
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