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Labor sources said Sir Keir had no comment on Saturday because he was visiting North Wales and was happy to allow his alternative culture secretary, Jo Stevens, to lead the party’s response.
Sir Keir’s statement was almost identical to that of Ms Stevens.
However, hours before Sir Keir issued his statement, former Labor Home Secretary Diane Abbott compared the activists’ action to that of the suffragettes and said it would be “ridiculous” to legislate against them.
She told Sky News: “They are not criminals, they are protesters and activists in the tradition of the suffragettes and hunger marches of the 1930s.”
That came 24 hours after fellow Labor MP Dawn Butler described Friday night’s lockdown, which affected the distribution of several national newspapers, as “excellent work” in a Twitter post since deleted.
In his Telegraph article, Mr. Dowden wrote: “As always for the modern left, facts take second place after virtue signaling and platform denial.
“I would have expected better from Sir Keir Starmer, but sadly and shamefully he was slow to condemn the actions of the protesters, while Labor MPs offered their support to the protesters.”
