Cooper: Proscribing Palestine Action protects UK security

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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says the decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group is about protecting national security, rather than preventing the "lawful right to protest". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We've seen a series of violent incidents including targeting national security infrastructure

00:08and including injuries and weapons involved and so this is not about the lawful right to protest.

00:15There are many ways for people to protest, to say their views and there's also a lot of people who

00:20feel rightly very strongly about some of the appalling things we've seen happening in Gaza

00:25and the West Bank but this is about whether there's action against our national security

00:31in the UK where we have to have proper safeguards in place.

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