Ministers will have the power to suppress any protest they don’t agree with, says Joshua Clements
Clauses 55 and 56 of the bill will make it easier for the police to impose conditions on marches and static protests, removing the distinction between the two. Where before, protests would have to threaten serious public disorder to warrant certain restrictions, under this bill police could intervene merely if the protest was noisy enough to cause a person in the vicinity “serious unease”.
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