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Police are to be given greater powers to restrict repeated protests, the home secretary has announced, hours after hundreds were arrested at a Palestine Action demonstration in London.
The event went ahead despite calls from Keir Starmer and others in the wake of the terror attack on a synagogue in Manchester during which two people were killed.
The home secretary Shabana Mahmood said repeated large-scale protests had caused "considerable fear" for the Jewish community.
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