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Anti-knife crime campaigners on Westminster Bridge in central London, calling for action over recent bloodshed today
BEREAVED families outside Downing Street today demanded that the government holds a Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (Cobra) emergency meeting to help tackle the rise of knife crime on Britain’s streets.
Hundreds of protesters stood in Whitehall for #OperationShutdown to demand that the government takes urgent action in the way that it would in response to terrorism.
Organiser Lucy Martindale, whose cousin was fatally stabbed, said: “If there is a terrorist attack and one person is killed there is a Cobra meeting.
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the horrific price British patients will pay for this NHS deal is now clear — and there’s time to get out of it, if MPs will only force the issue
Green Party MPs stand alone in Parliament in defending Palestine Action against Labour’s proscription of the group as a terrorist organisation — an outrageous move that the Tories supported and the cowardly Lib Dems abstained on, writes ELLIOT TONG