United Kingdom prime minister Rishi Sunak alerted media to a special address Friday made outside 10 Downing Street in London.

In the speech, the PM decried the rise of extremism in Britain, talked about the fear among British Jews of being identified on the street and targeted for being Jewish, but failed to provide any specific measures to protect Britain’s Jews. For the first half of the speech the prime minister competed with a vocal protestor in the vicinity, and Sunak appeared frightened for his personal well-being.

Instead, Sunak seemed to equate the rise in violence against UK Jews with “Islamophobia,” and repeated a false statement initially propagated by his Labour opposition during the ouster of home secretary Suella Braverman.

Several months ago Conservative cabinet member and home secretary Braverman spoke out against a perceived bias by police in Britain and specifically by the London Metropolitan Police in favor of pro-Hamas demonstrators against Jews. Braverman was forced to resign over her speech. Opposition Labour Party leader Keir Stammer at the time claimed Braverman had contradicted tradition and law by instructing the police to be fair in enforcing crowd control during protests. Stammer claimed, incorrectly, that police have “operational independence” when it comes to such enforcement. British prime minister Rishi Sunak reiterated that falsehood during his speech last Friday.

In fact, under British law and according to the albeit unwritten British constitution, police are firmly under the direction of the Home Office. “Home Office” is the equivalent to interior ministry in Europe, and Department of Justice in the USA.

The British police have always been under the jurisdiction and direct command of the Home Office. The only exception has been in dystopian novels where Britain has become a police state.

Sunak not only failed to name the victims and the perpetrators, he pushed his opposition’s claim police are independent of the Executive Branch in the United Kingdom, just as he did when he asked for home secretary Braverman’s resignation.

While Sunak’s call for a tolerant and multicultural Britain is certainly correct, especially in light of recent tensions and troubles, he failed to offer any specific protection for the Jews of Britain who have witnessed a basic take-over of the streets by pro-Hamas mobs. Sunak to his credit said British democracy cannot exist under current conditions, but only hinted the police should make a better effort at protecting the Jews who call England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Island and the separate islands home.

Sunak’s impassioned speech in favor of tolerance and a multi-confessional Britain come during a time of unprecedented weakness, following the third failed attempt to launch a Trident 3 nuclear missile in ten years and when most of the royal family is ill in hospital. Sunak’s own position within the Tories is also uncertain, with criticism from both sides of the aisle, and most observers predicting a Labour victory at the next parliamentary elections, whenever Sunak decides to call for such an election.

As this debacle takes place, Prince William has broken with royal protocol by issuing several statements about the Israel-Hamas war, stopping short of calling for an unconditional cease-fire. but nonetheless reversing the tradition of royals not commenting on foreign policy. He also used the woke phrase “lived experience” in one of his recent missives, indicating his preference for a Labour Government, as Harry and Meghan take a “working divorce” for fundraising purposes, with the rift seeming to indicate Harry wants to come back to the royal fold while Meghan does not.