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The Met Police's Misuse of Powers in the Coronation

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is at pains to insist that the police are operationally independent of government. I'm not sure you get to pass draconian new legislation into law a mere three days before the coronation, then claim its prompt misuse has nothing to do with you. We saw how the met police protest when given almost unlimited powers. Yet they keep on getting more. Suella Braverman's home office should struggle with macavitying its way out of this latest foul-up.

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