Downing Street: ‘Wrong’ to Project ‘From the River to the Sea’ Onto Parliament

Published on February 23, 2024

Downing Street has weighed in after MPs condemned the projection of a controversial “pro-Palestine” slogan, which some consider to be genocidal, onto the Parliament building on Wednesday. A spokeswoman for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told journalists on Friday it was “wrong” that protesters beamed “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” onto the Elizabeth Tower, which houses Big Ben, but stopped short of saying police should have intervened. The remarks come after the Metropolitan police was criticised for “doing nothing” about the stunt, which happened on the night MPs were debating about calling for a ceasefire in Israel and Gaza....