Public Order

I thank the Home Secretary for her statement and for advance sight of it. Like everyone in the Ho...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his thoughtful comments and his considered response not only to my...

Does the Home Secretary agree that the best way to ensure that black lives matter is peaceful pro...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. When it comes to inequalities and the injustice that has been...

May I thank the Home Secretary for advance sight of her statement? I extend my best wishes for a ...

I thank the hon. and learned Lady for her remarks and her support for police officers, while also...

We all agree there is injustice in the world, but does the Home Secretary agree with many of my c...

My hon. Friend has made important points. I have already made my view abundantly clear about how ...

I join all the Front Benchers in sending support and best wishes to all the police officers who h...

I thank the right hon. Lady for her questions and for her work on this matter with the Home Affai...

The House is grateful to the Home Secretary for taking the trouble to answer in great detail all ...

I am pleased to say that in north Wales the protests passed off peacefully over the weekend. Does...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I give my thanks to his local police force and the office...

Vandalism and violence should never be accepted. I too pay tribute to the hard-working officers w...

I would make a number of points to the hon. Lady. I have been very clear in my remarks about the ...

I was going to say how good it is to hear this House so united—in the main, it is united in its s...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and those people should be in no doubt whatever that swift ju...

I want to add my voice to those who have condemned the minority of people at the weekend who were...

I say to the hon. Gentleman, first, that he is speaking to a Home Secretary who is from the BAME ...

In Midlothian and Edinburgh, there are streets, a statue and other local references to Henry Dund...

The approach for becoming and being a fair and inclusive society also applies to the democratic w...

Fortunately, my constituency has had a low infection rate from covid, but in recent weeks people ...

Order. I am trying not to interrupt people, because we do not have much time, but we must adhere ...

My apologies, Madam Deputy Speaker.

My right hon. Friend will be aware that my residents ar...

My hon. Friend makes a very important point. I reiterate the point I made earlier: we have asked ...

My hon. Friend the Member for East Surrey (Claire Coutinho) quoted Martin Luther King on social m...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I have made the point repeatedly that the violence dominated ...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that nobody reasonable could ever conclude that accidents of thug...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. I have spoken about the violence, disorder and criminal...

The violence at the weekend was simply wrong—that is straightforward —but would the Home Secretar...

These protests are about injustice. What we have seen in America is dreadful—it is absolutely awf...

Residents in Stoke-on-Trent, Kidsgrove and Talke were rightly outraged when they saw the Cenotaph...

I completely support that sentiment and the point that my hon. Friend just made.

None of us in this place or, I believe, anywhere in the country wants to see violence and vandali...

First, when it comes to policing, our police continue to operate by consent. They command the res...

I must implore Members: a lot of people have bothered to come here this afternoon and they are no...

I will very much try to do that, Madam Deputy Speaker.

We are lucky to live in this country...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right.

Black Lives Matter protests have been held throughout Wales and I, too, stand against the injusti...

Order. We do not need examples. The question has been asked. [Interruption.] Order. The question ...

The right hon. Lady is right that we should absolutely reflect on the majority who have protested...

I wish to say how appalled I was by the damage to the Winston Churchill monument on the 76th anni...

The important point to note is that for those who participated in violence and thuggery, justice ...

I share the Home Secretary’s condemnation of anyone who engages in acts of violence, yet there re...

The hon. Lady will know that the Government as a whole consider all export applications thoroughl...

I thank my right hon. Friend for reassuring the country that the individuals who desecrated the C...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Those acts of violence were wholly counterproductive and that...

It is important to recognise that the majority of the weekend’s protests, including those in Glas...

The hon. Lady is right to point to peaceful protests, which are a vital part of a democratic soci...

Throughout the pandemic, our police officers have put themselves in danger to uphold the rule of ...

Order. Just before the Home Secretary answers that question, could everyone who is still to speak...

My hon. Friend the Member for North West Durham (Mr Holden) is absolutely right.

We will try again. Does the Home Secretary agree that the Government should remove statues of Bri...

The hon. Lady will be well aware—perhaps she would like to lobby local authorities across the cou...

I am proud that it was a Conservative Government who introduced Finn’s law to protect our service...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. What we witnessed at the weekend was utterly despicable. I lo...

Edward Colston made his fortune by violently transporting 84,000 Africans to the Caribbean. At le...

I hope that the hon. Lady will join me in lobbying councils across the country where Labour has b...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that we must not let the violence of a minority this weekend over...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, which is why the Equalities Minister is working across Govern...

Many Elizabethan British heroes used violence to enhance their wealth. Does the Home Secretary ag...

The hon. Gentleman makes a valid point. Violent activity can never be regarded as a legitimate fo...

With regard to public order, may I ask my right hon. Friend to continue the policy of stop and se...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. One of the most extraordinary—

All lives can’t matter until black lives matter.

Order.

One of the important facts about stop and search, which I have experienced myself when meeting th...

There is no place for racism or discrimination in our society, but it is there; it is everywhere,...

The important point is that this is not down to one individual. We all have a responsibility—[Int...

Will my right hon. Friend join me in thanking County Durham residents for maintaining both peace ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I congratulate her constabulary for the work that it has done...

No recourse to public funds is a policy that is in place at the Home Office that disproportionate...

I refer the hon. Lady to my comments on this issue earlier on.

My right hon. Friend has offered her full support to our police in tackling violence, vandalism a...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is the responsibility of the elected Mayor of London, the ...

Many people in Bath, Bristol and the surrounding areas have said that the statue of Edward Colsto...

The question is, why wasn’t it and why did the Labour Mayor not do that sooner?

Will the Home Secretary join me in paying tribute to the fortitude, professionalism and patience ...

Our police officers and police forces have shown great courage over the weekend and throughout th...

My inbox, like many, is full of emails from constituents demanding that we decry racism and polic...

It is important to understand the facts and figures around deaths in police custody. In 2018-19, ...

It is the dehumanising of the other that makes it okay to violently attack a stranger, whether th...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right about celebrating our common humanity, the diversity of our gr...

We will overlook the irony of the Home Secretary saying that mass gatherings are unlawful, while ...

I have been very clear about the protests over the weekend, and about how the Government and all ...

My right hon. Friend has quite properly said that residents should lobby local authorities to rai...

My hon. Friend makes a valid and important point. If people want change when it comes to their lo...

Will the right hon. Lady congratulate both Nottinghamshire police and the Nottingham protest orga...

Peaceful protest remains a vital part of our democratic society, as the hon. Lady has said, but w...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that we should push for the harshest possible sentences on the pe...

As we saw post the 2010 and 2011 riots, it is important that we see swift justice. We have a proc...

Watching on the television, I thought the police seemed to be holding back. They will have been h...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He will know of the operational independence of our police fo...

The use of rubber bullets in the UK is, thankfully, rare, but not so in the US. It has been ident...

I have just been reliably told by the Policing Minister that rubber bullets are not authorised fo...

As a Bristol MP, I want to commend the police for how they handled things yesterday; it was a ver...

The hon. Lady raised a number of issues. First, I have spoken to the chief constable of Avon and ...

The protests in Birmingham last week were very peaceful, but unfortunately the same cannot be sai...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right.

I congratulate many of the peaceful protesters and the police and authorities that have helped to...

I call the Home Secretary.

The Government’s position on coronavirus could not be any clearer—

Incoherent!

Stop shouting.

It is coherent. The hon. Gentleman should understand the message of saving lives, staying alert a...

Everyone has the right to peaceful, lawful protest, but in a pandemic they do not, whatever the c...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. This comes back to the point that I made earlier. Many of the...

Given the risk that the protests may cause a second wave of this virus, and given the disgraceful...

This weekend has shown that these protests are a threat to public health. On those grounds alone,...

I thank the hon. Members who took part in the second half of that statement for being swift. We w...