I am rather split on my attitude to the Clapham protest.
It was inevitable that it couldn't go ahead without Covid rules being breached, so letter of the law should have been banned, as it was, and policed.
It was also obvious the protest would go ahead in some form, so common sense says that agreeing to a compromise of some sort with the vigil groups would have been good politics. Whether that would have stopped things getting out of hand after dark , I am not so sure.
But at least then Cressida/the Met would have been seen to try.
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