Keir Starmer met with boos and cries of ‘shame on you’ during visit to Golders Green
Keir Starmer has was met with boos and jeers during a visit to Golders Green this afternoon.
The Prime Minister was in north London to meet the Jewish community following yesterday’s stabbing attack, which left two people injured.
He was met with a vitriolic reception by crowds when meeting with the Jewish ambulance service Haztola in Finchley Road.
There were also heckles of ‘Keir Starmer, Jew harmer’.
Sir Keir then held a meeting with Jewish officials behind closed doors, prompting further chants of ‘if you are prime minister, come talk to us. Show your face’ from the crowd.
The meeting lasted around an hour before Sir Keir left the scene in his motorcade.He was again met with jeers including shouts of ‘coward’.
Speaking to Metro at the scene, a protester called Chaim, 24, said: ‘We are angry, we feel ignored.The police on the front line are great.Starmer has been useless, poor leadership and just words of support come from his mouth and nothing changes.’
Shloime Rand, 34, and Moshe Shine, 76, were injured in yesterday’s incident, which is being treated as terror.
A 45-year-old British national, who came to the UK as a child from Somalia, was arrested.
It has emerged the man suspected of carrying out the attack was previously referred to Prevent – the government’s counter-extremism programme.
Scotland Yard said a referral was made in 2020 and was closed in the same year.
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Earlier today, Sir Keir held a roundtable with representatives including Met Police commissioner Sir Mark Rowley in Downing Street.
He said: ‘I do think there’s a wider duty on all of us in terms of confidence in the criminal justice system to be able to deal with appalling attacks like this, to show that it can act in a swift, agile and visible way.
‘I look forward to a discussion with you as to how we make that happen.’
Speaking exclusively to Metro, the mum of Shloime Rand described him as a ‘gentle soul’.
She said she’d been at his bedside while he is recovering in hospital, adding he was in the area to attend a religious studies class.
She added: ‘The Jewish community needs more protection for the danger we face.’
Reform leader Nigel Farage attended Golders Green on Thursday morning.
When asked by Metro if he had a message for the Jewish community, he said: ‘My message is very simple.Everything will be done, and must be done, to make sure you can live your lives freely in this country like everybody else, but the government needs to act.’
He said ‘there’s going to have to be’ when asked if the community needs extra police and security.