Member

Like the noble Lord, Lord Strasburger, I think that one of the biggest threats to protest rights is undoubtedly the Government’s Amendment 372. Can I ask the Minister, unless there is clarity, whether this is about geography, as other people have asked? The notion that an area cannot have regular protests seems peculiar to me. It is not about a particular geographic street with synagogues in it, by the way—but in this whole area of Westminster, there are regularly demonstrations, as there would be and should be, and as a vibrant democracy would have it. I do not want them to fall under this problem.