‘Preposterous state': Douglas Murray slams ‘two-tier' policing in the UK
'If we say what we see with our eyes in footage like that, we are somehow creating division,' Mr Murray told Sky News host Rita Panahi.
'This is the preposterous state that Britain has gotten into and don't forget, it happened under a Conservative government as well as under the current Labor one.'
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