Organisers of demonstrations in Manchester and London are defying calls by Sir Keir Starmer and police bosses to reconsider following the killing of two people in the terror attack. “So for those two reasons, I think the organisers should call off these protests. But they cannot ban an assembly, or static protest, outright under the Act. A leader of the Community Security Trust described the protests due to take place on Saturday “phenomenally tone deaf”. “And I think it’s remarkably self absorbed and insensitive to say the least.”But a member of the group behind the London protest said it would be “unwise” to heed calls to cancel it.