Speaking on BBC’s The Andrew Marr show, Priti Patel responds to concerns raised by him on police “losing control” across UK.

Andrew Marr: Priti Patel, as we are leaving the lockdown are you beginning to be concerned that across the street of this country the police are in some places losing control?

Priti Patel: Well, what concerns me Andrew is the fact that we are seeing people mass gatherings. We are in the midst of a midst of a global pandemic still a health crisis and a health emergency that people are still gathering and quite inappropriate ways. And obviously, we have seen in recent weeks, protests, demonstrations that have turned ugly and violent. I’ve seen far too many assaults on our hard-working and our outstanding police officers that is unacceptable. And then more recently in the last week or so, we’ve seen gathering street parties, you know people behaving in ways in which the quite frankly just not [ not] right and not proper. So with regards to policing, I spend every day speaking to our policing leadership across the country almost every day with frontline officers as well and our officers are resilient. They are remarkable. I think they’ve been true heroes throughout the global pandemics throughout the last 13 weeks with coronavirus. But the fact of the matter is we still have this disease in our communities in society. We need people to be conscientious and act responsibly.

Andrew Marr: And yet people are not acting responsibly. I mean you talk about street parties and let’s just remind ourselves. Look at some of the pictures from Brixton. This was as it were a street party very very violent street party and some really nasty confrontations here. Is that not a sign of as it were Law and Order breaking down on the streets of London?

Priti Patel: Well, well first of all that what we saw was unacceptable police officers were assaulted and injured. There are a number of police officers that were injured that night which is absolutely shocking. We’ve seen violent behaviour. I mean that’s violent behaviour will be met with law enforcement that is effectively what the police do. I’ve actually spoken to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner; I made it quite clear if more support was required or needed for the police more resources, and quite frankly, we will do whatever is needed. But it’s behaviour, behaviour is the key thing here right, now. Those types of behaviours will do very little to stop the spread of the virus right now. And where we see criminality, violent behaviour, as I said, when we saw the protests a few weeks ago, thuggishness and violent behaviour is simply unacceptable, and the police will do the right thing. They will enforce the law.

Andrew Marr: Do you think we need to see fewer big mass gatherings on the streets of Britain in total? We’ve had two days now, two nights now where people in Liverpool been celebrating their football victory in very very large numbers. We saw the black lives matter demonstrations as well. Do we have to stop coming out into the street from these large numbers at this time?

Priti Patel: My view is yes; we do. Congratulations to Liverpool for winning, but even so, fans, of course, want to celebrate but they did not need to go to the football ground and congregate outside the stadium, you know, as much as people do want to be out right now. The weather is amazing, stick to the rules, follow the guidance, we’ve made it quite clear that you know, six or more people, no one should be gathering more than six or six or more people. But also when it comes to protest, there are other ways in which people can express their views and opinions. And with black lives matter, they’re legitimate voices, legitimate causes, legitimate issues that were being aired at the time and of course, you know, I’m a member of the government we are all working and listening to many of those really challenging and difficult issues surrounding justice, social justice, we want to right some wrongs there, absolutely, and do much more to help and support people. But protest in right now will not help us get control of this awful disease, this horrible virus and stop the spread of it.

Questioned by Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer:
Germany, app working 15th of June. 12 million downloads [, 12 million downloads]. Mr. Speaker, I checked that overnight. 12 million is way beyond. The Health Secretary said we would have the app by mid-May, presumably on the advice. The Prime Minister said we’d have it by the 1st of June. Now the government ministers say it won’t be ready until the winter. We spent 12 million on this; other countries are ahead of us. When are we going to have a working app?

Answered by Prime Minister Boris Johnson:
Mr. Speaker [, I’m afraid], I’m afraid he’s completely wrong because no country in the world has a working contact tracing app. I’ve always been and we have always been clear that the app would be the icing on the cake. If we can get it to work [, if we can get it to work], it would be a fine thing, but there isn’t one anywhere in the world so far. What we do have is a fantastic test and trace, NHS tests and trace operation that is already up and running that is going to get better and better and will be indispensable to our future success, and I think he should support it.

Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer asked Mrs Long-Bailey to stand down from her job as shadow education secretary after retweeting an article that “contained an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory”

Mrs Long-Bailey response on twitter:

“In no way was my retweet an intention to endorse every part of that article.”

The Jewish Labour Movement welcomed Starmer’s decision and the Board of Deputies of British thanked him for “swift action”

On twitter, Royal Air Force has announced that it had completed £900,000 of refurbishment work on the RAF Voyager “Vespina” (ZZ336)

“The RAF Voyager “Vespina” has completed its refurbishment to provide a secure and suitably profiled transport for Government Minister and the Royal Family.

The aircraft now proudly displays the Union Flag alongside RAF markings.

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Questioned by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer:
He’s been found out. He either dodges the question or he gives dodgy answers. Mr. Speaker. No more witnesses, I rest my case. Will the Prime Minister do the decent thing and correct the record in relation to child poverty?

Answered by Prime Minister Boris Johnson:
Mr. Speaker, I’m happy to point out to my learned friend that actually [, actually] there are a hundred thousand fewer children in absolute poverty and 500,000 falling below the thresholds of low income and material deprivation. This government as he knows is massively increasing Universal Credit, 7 billion more to help the poorest and neediest families in our country. We’re getting on with it, we’re taking the tough decisions and he still can’t make up his mind. Talking about child poverty, the single biggest determinant of a child’s success is whether or not he or she goes to school. He still won’t say [, he still won’t say] whether the children should go…I think Mr. Speaker it’s absolutely infamous for him to come to his house one day and say supports the program and then the next day not to confirm that he wants kids to go to school now.