There would be no protests this weekend if I was in charge, says Ann Widdecombe

FORMER Home Office minister Ann Widdecombe said she would have banned protests during Armistice Day commemorations planned for this weekend.

Asked how she would handle the marches, she told GB News: “Very straightforwardly. There wouldn't be any marches this weekend. The Government have had time to do it.

“We should introduce a law that says that on Armistice Day and on Remembrance Sunday, if they are separate as they quite often are, on those two days there should be no marches in support of anything at all in central London, not even the causes that I believe in.”

Speaking to Mark Dolan, she continued: “No marches in favour of anything at all, because the only show in time should be the honouring of the dead and the honouring of veterans.

“That should be all that those days actually mean. It’s not asking much.”

She added: “There are 365 days in the year and people can demonstrate on 363 of them, but could they leave on this first day and Remembrance Sunday alone?”