Labour will introduce 150 metre buffer zones around schools, Sir Keir Starmer said today, as he admitted he was "very concerned" about a school teacher who is in hiding after showing their class a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.
Speaking in Dudley to GB News, Starmer said: "I do feel very concerned about this individual. I do think that we need to take extremism very seriously. The strategy needs updating, I think it was last updated nine years ago.
"The report into what happened in Batley raised some very serious issues, particularly this idea that there shouldn't be those sorts of protests outside of our schools.
"This shouldn't become a party political issue. We've all got an interest in making sure we're tackling this kind of extremism."
Asked by GB News if a Labour government would implement the buffer zones, Starmer replied: "I do think that we should do that. I think we should be a buffer outside of our schools. School should not be a place for protest."
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