Out-Torying the Tories?
As Just Stop Oil activists protested at oil refineries and on tankers to demand the UK end new fossil-fuel investment, shadow secretary of state for justice Steve Reed called for the Tories to repress more harshly. “Motorists were already being hammered by prices at the pump, and now millions can’t even access fuel”, spewed the MP for Croydon North on 11 April. “The Conservatives need to stop standing idly by and put an end to this disruption that is causing misery for motorists.” A formal statement from the party called for a nationwide injunction to “simplify police operations by enabling...