The Prime Minister wants to create a contrast with critics in his party and others

As Starmer believes, it’s an act that goes to the heart of what freedom and democracy mean — including the right to protest, while speaking to repeated protests, anger, and protests for many in the Jewish community. Many of the prime minister’s critics, in opposition parties and elsewhere, say they are tired of what they see as warm rhetoric and rhetoric about anti-Semitism and want to see concrete action.