Minister backs Met Commissioner after calls for him to quit over protest row
The head of the Metropolitan Police should not resign over the force’s handling of pro-Palestinian protests, a Cabinet minister has said, amid calls for Sir Mark Rowley to go.
Both the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) and former home secretary Suella Braverman have called for the police chief to resign or be sacked, accusing him of having “emboldened” antisemites.
But Energy Security Secretary Claire Coutinho declined to join them.
She told the BBC: “I personally wouldn’t go that far
