More than 1,000 officers from forces around the country will be drafted in to help the Metropolitan Police this weekend amid intense political pressure to prevent disruption to remembrance events. Police chiefs have backed Met commissioner Sir Mark Rowley's decision to resist banning a pro-Palestinian march on Armistice Day despite comments from the prime minister and the home secretary. Gavin Stephens, who is chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC), said demonstrations which have seen hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets across the country over the past five weeks in response to the Israel-Hamas war had...