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Public Disorder (NUS Rally)

Yesterday afternoon I agreed to give an interview outside St Stephen's entrance to some students from Nottingham university. After that interview we were joined by a bearded, slovenly man in his 40s wearing an ““End capitalism now”” badge— ... I was wearing a yellow tie, so perhaps he mistook me for one. This man sought to wind up the students. In my judgment, he was an old-fashioned agent provocateur who had infiltrated the group. What assurances can the Minister give the House on future intelligence gathering, so that those who come here to make legitimate protests do not get infiltrated and have their legitimate causes hijacked?