Home secretary plans to use policing bill to grant new powers to police to crack down on activists
Civil liberties groups have reacted with dismay to Priti Patel’s plan to criminalise protest groups, saying demonstrations are a “core pillar of any healthy democracy”.
The home secretary indicated that she plans to prevent people travelling if they are known members of groups whose demonstrations block roads or otherwise interfere with national infrastructure, as she seeks to crack down on recent such actions by climate crisis activists.