Tandingan Demonstrators Often Attend Demonstrations In England But Are Prohibited By PM Starmer Special October 7

British PM, Keir Starmer (right) and the police are monitoring the streets from the threat of right-wing riots calling for anti-migrants. (X-@10DowningStreet)

JAKARTA - British Prime Minister (PM) Keir Starmer responded to the plan of students in the pro-Palestinian UK to take to the streets in protest during a commemoration of the victims of the Hamas attack on Israel, October 7, today.

"This is not our identity as a country," said Starmer in the Times newspaper, quoted from AFP.

Starmer considered it disrespectful if students demonstrated during the October 7 commemoration.

"It really doesn't reflect England's identity if we don't respect others. And that was before some of them decided to return to shouting hatred towards Jews," said the British Labor Party politician.

Protests in England are usually attended by opposing demonstrators. Although not in one line, rival demonstrators generally continue to shout the slogans they are fighting for near the protest participants.

Meanwhile, today, Tuesday, October 7, 2025, students from several universities in London plan to leave the classroom at 14.00 local time to gather to hold a long march to the city center as a form of solidarity with the people in Gaza who were victims of Israeli military attacks.

Meanwhile, other protests took place in other cities in England, including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Sheffield, and Manchester, in memory of victims of the Hamas attack on Israel October 7 and attacks on Manchester's synagoge.