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Police arrest a protester at Millbank near to the junction with Great College Street, during an Extinction Rebellion (XR) protest in Westminster, London.
TORY plans to crack down on the right to protest are an “unprecedented, draconian assault on British liberty,” Labour MP Jon Trickett has warned.
The left-wing member for Hemsworth in West Yorkshire told the Commons on Tuesday that ministers are attempting to strengthen the “repressive arms of the British state” via the widely condemned Public Order Bill.
Downing Street claims that the legislation, which is back in the Commons after being amended by peers, is needed to avoid disruption caused by environmental activists at Just Stop Oil, Insulate Britain and Extinction Rebellion.
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
Home Secretary Cooper confirms plans to ban the group and claims its peaceful activists ‘meet the legal threshold under the Terrorism Act 2000’