After Prime Minister Keir Starmer called pro-Palestine protesters “un-British”, SouthLondonLines went out onto the streets of London to find out what people thought of his criticism.

Augusto Filomeno, 28, a bartender who moved to the UK from Venezuela six years ago, said, “Starmer should feel ashamed of what he’s doing and so should his supporters.” He added that many of his British friends participated in the protest and he didn’t “understand how opposing a genocide makes them un-British”.

Dominic Judge, 44, who works in the artificial intelligence sector, said, he didn’t trust Starmer and could “understand why students are fighting for rights and their beliefs”.

Alexandra Relph, 21, an economics student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, said, “I know people who went to the protest and they are some of the kindest people I’ve met, so if being kind makes someone un-British then that’s quite funny”. Seeming to take a jokey attitude to Starmer’s comment, Relph said she thought the prime minister himself was “a joke”.