Member

The sensible amendments from the noble Baroness, Lady Blower, seek to provide much-needed clarity and certainty, for demonstration organisers and the police. Historically, the right to peaceful protest was hard-won. Each of us may support or vehemently oppose the aims of a particular demonstration, but we should all agree that the right to peaceful protest must be meaningful and it must be protected, as an essential hallmark of a free and democratic society.