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Human Rights

Generally, there is not a problem—there is communication. We know that from the 4,500 to 5,000 cases of protests that pass peacefully every year. However, I mention to my hon. Friend the position of the hon. Member for Cambridge during the G20 protest. In that protest, neither side—neither the police nor the protesters—was prepared to talk to the other. It was only when he tried to bring them together that there was any dialogue at all; it may have been a dialogue of the deaf, but at least it was a start. In Northern Ireland, that very painstaking no-surprises process began through the use of intermediaries—Catholic priests, in that particular case.