Keir Starmer calls for schools to be protected from anti-vaccine protests

Labour leader says councils should be allowed to use exclusion orders, in remarks echoed by Priti Patel

Councils should be allowed to use exclusion orders to stop anti-vaccine activists from protesting outside schools, Keir Starmer has said.

The Labour leader said it was sickening" that those against vaccinations were demonstrating where children are educated.

The home secretary, Priti Patel, called such protests completely unacceptable", adding that children, teachers or parents should not be intimidated and harassed outside their schools".