MPs have approved new powers for police to crack down on disruptive protests amid outcry from opposition members who branded the measures 'fascist' and 'authoritarian'.
"This has required over 13,770 police officer shifts, that's over 13,000 police shifts that could have been stopping robbery, violent crime or anti-social behaviour, and the cost to the taxpayer is an outrage - £4.5 million in just six weeks on top of the £14 million spent last year."
The changes the government want to introduce would lower the threshold of what counts as serious disruption from"significant" and"prolonged" to"more than minor". "Instead, what it is doing is giving the police the power to prevent any and every campaign group protesting outside a local library or swimming pool that is about to be closed because it may be a little more than minor.
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