Police are assessing a social media post by the wife of Andy Burnham‘s national security adviser showing support for banned extremist group Palestine Action.
The Met said it was looking into whether Jonathan Powell’s wife Sarah Helm had committed a crime by advocating the proscribed terror organisation.
In a major embarrassment to her husband, the Prime Minister’s most senior aide, Ms Helm wrote on X: ‘God help us authors who support Palestine and Palestine Action.’
It is an offence to publicly support the group and more than 3,700 people have already been arrested for championing it since it was banned from operating in
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