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Priti Patel condemns anti-lockdown protesters’ treatment of BBC’s Nick Watt

Journalist angrily confronted in incident home secretary describes as ‘appalling and distressing’

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The home secretary and Downing Street have condemned an incident in which a senior BBC journalist was angrily confronted and pursued by anti-lockdown protesters as “appalling and distressing”.

Footage circulating online showed Nick Watt, the political editor of BBC Newsnight, being followed on a street near parliament on Monday by unmasked protesters who shouted into his face.

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