FORMER Barrow MP Lord Walney has suggested councillors and MPs should be banned from engaging with groups behind Palestine marches.

The peer, who served Barrow and Furness as John Woodock, now acts as a Downing Street adviser on political violence and disruption.

He called for party leaders to ban their MPs from meeting the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which has organised several pro-Palestine marches in London since October 7, 'until they get their house in order and cut the hate from their marches'.

The recommendation forms part of Lord Walney’s report on political violence, due to be submitted to the Government shortly.

He wrote in the Sun on Sunday that environmental protest groups such as Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil should also not be able to meet politicians, saying: “If you threaten MPs and break the law to try to get your way, you should never be invited into the room to express your views.”

The Government’s  tsar said police should have the powers to 'disperse' protests around Parliament, MPs’ offices and council chambers that they deem to be threatening, adding 'aggressive intimidation of MPs' by 'mobs' was being mistaken for an 'expression of democracy'.

Lord Walney, the Government’s independent adviser on political violence and disruption who conducted an official review into fringe groups, also claimed there has been 'an unholy alliance' between far-left groups and Islamist extremism on protest marches.

He said there was a 'gap in the Government’s understanding of damage the anti-democratic far left can do'.

He told the Telegraph: “One of the conclusions of my review is to look at and understand the threat from anti-democratic far-left groups, alongside that posed by Islamists and the far right.

“For understandable reasons, the focus since 9/11 has been on violent terrorism.

“Because the far left has not posed a similar kind of violent threat, there has been less understanding and less focus on the way in which they can harm our society.”

A Home Office spokesman said it was considering the report’s recommendations 'extremely carefully'.