Baroness Shami Chakrabarti discussed Friday’s address by Rishi Sunak with Trevor Phillips on Sunday Morning.
The public wants protests to be policed, not managed, he claimed, having spoken with police commanders to convey this expectation.
The former director of the charity Liberty, Baroness Chakrabarti, claimed that Mr. Sunak’s “almost suggesting that he has read the riot act to the police” was the most “sinister” aspect of the speech.
She continued: “I think in a liberal democracy – and he’s now claiming to be a liberal patriot, I think that was the language he used – we don’t have prime ministers interfering with operational policing.”
In the address, Mr. Sunak referred to himself as a patriot and praised Britain as a liberal, democratic country.
