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ALARMING: Suella Braverman
CIVIL liberties campaigners are urging MPs to reject “unprecedented and draconian” anti-protest laws due to return to Parliament tomorrow.
The Public Order Bill, which enters its next stage in the Commons on Tuesday, would see protesters jailed for up to six months for “locking-on” to people, objects or buildings as well as new criminal offences for interfering with “national infrastructure” such as oil refineries.
Protesters could also be hit with serious disruption prevention orders (SDPO) and be subjected to wider stop-and-search powers.
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
Court of Appeal rules key anti-protest legislation was forced through unlawfully
