to operate within the law, including the laws around peaceful protest. the home secretary should be working with the police and instead, you get this extraordinary attack on them, and an attack on them for being somehow impartial because they are not the operational wing of the home secretary. under the british constitution, the british tradition of policing, the home secretary and parliament sets the law and then it is the job of the police to actually implement it, to enforce it and to make sure the law is respected. but when you have complicated community issues, really, the home secretary should be working with the police to make it easier for them to do theirjob, not to make it harder in this way. i have never seen anything like this. so important that the home secretary is working with the police and supporting them in the difficult independent operational decisions that they have to make rather than trying to second guess them, trying to undermine the decisions that th