Labour minister says Bob Vylan’s anti-IDF chants at Glastonbury ‘clearly overstepped mark’

Former Home Secretary: 'There's no doubt they've crossed a line' on Glastonbury rowSky News

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00:00I do want to talk to you about what we've seen at Glastonbury over the weekend.

00:04You've seen some of the reporting this morning.

00:07I mean, what's your assessment of what should happen now to the band, to the BBC and to the festival?

00:14Well, first of all, it clearly, these were clearly comments that overstepped the mark.

00:20I'm surprised that the BBC carried on broadcasting them live when it was obvious what was happening.

00:27I understand that complaints would have been made, have been made, about what was said in terms of its incitement to violence.

00:34And I think that's for the police to consider.

00:38And I think the BBC also have questions to answer about how they continued to broadcast this for the time that they did.

00:45And just also to say, you know, having been to Glastonbury myself,

00:49I've got no doubt that there were lots of people at Glastonbury over the weekend

00:53who were also remembering the music festival in Israel on the 7th of October in 2023,

01:00where young people got grabbed from that music festival, kidnapped and murdered.

01:05And we'll want to reflect on that as well.

01:09So do you think what was said was, in fact, incitement to violence as a former Home Secretary?

01:15Can you put that hat on for me for a moment?

01:17Look, I think there's no doubt that it crossed the line.

01:23I'm clear about that.

01:24The organisers at the Glastonbury Festival are clear about that.

01:28The extent to which it's a criminal offence and the police take action is obviously for the police themselves to decide.

01:35But it shouldn't have happened and it shouldn't have been broadcast live.

01:39It shouldn't have happened and that's why we were caught on that local

02:01telephone which happens in midnight.