The Politics of Protest: Suella Braverman vs the police

Why did the Home Secretary write a newspaper column that puts her
on a collision course with both the UK’s most senior police
officer… and seemingly the prime minister?


In this week’s podcast Amol and Nick look at the politics of
protest – and what exactly Suella Braverman is trying to achieve
by taking on the police, ahead of a proposed march through London
on Armistice Day calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.


They’re joined by Neil Basu, who served for thirty years in the
Met Police, including as national lead for counter-terrorism. For
many years he was deputy to current Met Commissioner, Sir Mark
Rowley.


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The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson, both
presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the UK’s most
influential radio news programme. Amol was the BBC’s media editor
for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s
also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has
presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s
political editor for ten years before that and also previously
worked as ITV’s political editor.


The producers are Tom Smithard and Stephanie Mitcalf. The editors
are Jonathan Aspinwall and Louisa Lewis. The executive producer
is Owenna Griffiths. Studio direction from Phil Bull.