Damian Hinds seeks to clarify comments made by Rishi Sunak in a speech to police chiefs on Wednesday, where the prime minister claimed the UK was descending into "mob rule". The schools minister says, “what the prime minister was talking about was not letting intimidation influence our political process” and is “absolutely right” to do so. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 The Prime Minister was talking about was not letting intimidation influence our political
00:07 process and I think he's absolutely right about that. Your viewers have seen on their television
00:14 screens for example groups of people gathering outside someone's home and on that occasion that
00:20 was a member of parliament but it could be you know journalists are a very important part of this
00:26 freedom that we have as well and others and I think that does cross a line actually. What the
00:32 Prime Minister is absolutely saying is the mob must never, you must never allow mob rule, the
00:37 intimidation, street tactics as it were to overcome our democracy. In our national parliaments in the
00:45 last week or so we have had discussion about whether threats that people may feel,
00:52 unsafety that people may feel should affect how our democratic processes are run and that
00:59 we cannot have. Our liberal democracy, our freedoms must be paramount.