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Ian Murray told Sky: \u201cWe can\u2019t allow this to happen. We can\u2019t allow a country to become a place where we\u2019re excluding people from public events.\u201d | Andy Rain<\/p>\nStarmer\u2019s direct intervention also raises the stakes for the British government, which must now find a way to defuse the row.<\/p>\n
Culture Minister Ian Murray confirmed Friday morning that Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, responsible for the sport brief in the U.K., would meet with the Home Office to \u201csee if there\u2019s a way through this.\u201d<\/p>\n
He told Sky: \u00a0\u201cWe can\u2019t allow this to happen. We can\u2019t allow a country to become a place where we\u2019re excluding people from public events.\u201d<\/p>\n
Murray insisted the government still had \u201cabsolute faith\u201d in West Midlands Police and denied the Cabinet was involving itself in operational decisions for the police.<\/p>\n
Ian Murray told Sky: \u201cWe can\u2019t allow this to happen. We can\u2019t allow a country to become a place where we\u2019re excluding people from public events.\u201d | Andy Rain<\/p>\n
Labour\u2019s West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Simon Foster, who holds responsibility for overseeing police services, called Friday for an \u201cimmediate review\u201d about whether the decision was \u201cappropriate, necessary, justified, reasonable and \u2026 proportionate.\u201d The review, he said in a statement<\/a>, must include consideration of \u201calternative options.\u201d <\/p>\n Maccabi Tel Aviv\u00a0CEO Jack Angelides told the BBC there had been no correspondence from British officials making clear that fans were officially banned, but praised the communication with club Aston Villa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starmer\u2019s direct intervention also raises the stakes for the British government, which must now find a way to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[625,629,59,57,58,34140,9084,420,12174,39793,50,56,54,55,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-206245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-british-politics","9":"tag-ed-davey","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-greatbritain","13":"tag-ian-murray","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-keir-starmer","16":"tag-kemi-badenoch","17":"tag-lisa-nandy","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-unitedkingdom","22":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}