A SENIOR Labour MP has said that the party would not repeal the Tories anti-protest legislation if they form a government after the next General Election.
David Lammy, Labour’s shadow foreign office spokesperson, was asked for his party’s position by a republican caller on his weekend LBC radio show, following arrests at King Charles’s coronation.
We told how the CEO of anti-monarchy group Republic was among the 52 people arrested during the King’s coronation, as well as campaigners from Just Stop Oil and Labour for a Republic.
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It comes after the Tories rushed the Public Order Bill through Westminster ahead of the King’s special day on Saturday.
The new laws will include a 12-month prison sentence for protesters who block roads, a six-month jail term or unlimited fine for anyone who locks on to others, a building, or an object, and police are permitted to stop protesters they suspect are out to cause “disruption”.
One LBC caller, named only as Phil, asked the Tottenham MP on Sunday: “Would you be prepared as a Labour government to repeal this legislation which is totally unnecessary - given that you agree it's unnecessary, and the other legislation this liberticide government has passed - which is attempting to control and repress our right to protest that are right to oppose legally and legitimately actions by our government?”
Lammy stating clearly that Labour will not repeal the anti-protest...
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