Keir Starmer heckled and booed during visit to Golders Green

Marcus Donaldson
Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:07:28 +0000

Keir Starmer was heckled and jeered during a visit to Golders Green after two Jewish men were stabbed in the north west London suburb yesterday in a terror attack.

The Prime Minister’s motorcade was met with chants of "shame on you" and "Jew harmer" as it sped past demonstrators.

Those lining the streets holding banners and flying flags also demanded "protect our children" and even branded Sir Keir a "traitor" to British Jews.

They could be seen being held by by polce as a collum of vehicles carrying the Prime Minister drove past at speed.

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During his visit, the Prime Minister met with members of the Shomrim security group and Hatzola, a Jewish medical charity, whose ambulances were targeted in an arson attack in the same suburb last month.

Alongside him was Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley and Sarah Sackman, a justice minister and the local MP.

Yesterday, the Scotland Yard boss was also met with a similar reaction when he issued a statement from Golders Green just hours after the incident.

He and local Labour MP Sarah Sackman were drowned out with cries of “shame on you” and “resign”.

In the hours after the visit, the Prime Minister adressed the nation.

During the speech from Downing Street, Sir Keir pledged that the Government "will do everything in our power to stamp this hatred out".

"We will strengthen our security and protect our Jewish community. But I also call on everyone decent in this country to open their eyes to Jewish pain, Jewish suffering, and Jewish fear.

"I call on everyone to come together and fight anti-Semitism, and I call on everyone to fight for the decent, respectful, tolerant Britain that millions of people and I love so that our freedom and our values can still speak loud and true to a community that can no longer take it on faith."

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"I will simply say that our values are not a gift, handed down, generation to generation. They are something we earn each day through action. They come from us.

"Antisemitism is an old, old hatred. History shows that the roots are deep. And if you turn away, it grows back.

"Yet far too many people in this country diminish it. They either don't see it, or they don't want to see it.

"Take the marches that happen regularly across Britain. Of course, we protect freedom of speech and peaceful protest in this country but if you are marching with people wearing pictures of paragliders without calling it out, you are venerating the murder of Jews," the Prime Minister wanred.