A pro-Palestinian march planned for Armistice Weekend 'must go ahead', Winston Churchill's grandson and former armed security minister Lord Nicholas Soames has told LBC.
A pro-Palestinian march planned for Armistice Weekend "must go ahead", Winston Churchill's grandson and former armed security minister Lord Nicholas Soames has told LBC. Speaking as the Metropolitan Police confirmed the march on Saturday would be allowed to go ahead as the "evidence threshold" to ban it had not yet been met, Lord Soames told LBC "a lot of people died during the war to assert freedom".
"The previous demonstrations have been pretty good really. I mean, there's been a few arrests and but for the scale of people. "I think they are not hate marches and why would you say such a thing? I don't get it... It is polarising and we live in a country which needs all the none polarisation it can get.
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