Just Stop Oil blocked rush hour traffic into London again on Wednesday, hours after police got new powers to take disruptive protesters off the road
Just Stop Oil have been protesting on Wednesday.Home Secretary Suella Bravermans' proposals lower the threshold for what is considered "serious disruption" to community life from "significant" and "prolonged" to "more than minor".
They will also allow police officers to take into account "any relevant cumulative disruption" of repeated protests. The secondary legislation is controversial because the government had previously tried to introduce the same changes when the Public Order Bill went through Parliament, but they were rejected by the House of Lords at the time by 254 votes to 240.Labour frontbencher Lord Coaker said: "Primary legislation was defeated.
The Green Party tried to bring a motion to kill the proposals, but Lords voted it down. Labour did not vote against Ms Braverman's proposals, but brought a so-called 'regret motion', which was backed by the majority of voting peers. Just Stop Oil have been protesting on and off since February 2022, in an attempt to halt new oil and gas exploration. Some 2,200 people have been arrested and 138 people have been jailed.
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