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Plans aimed at preventing tactics such as ‘slow marching’ part of Rishi Sunak’s public order crackdown
mostly all protests are "slow marching" unless they are at a standstill
Police in England and Wales are to be given powers to shut down protests before any disruption begins - Through an amendment tabled to the Public Order Bill, the Government will broaden the legal definition of ‘serious disruption’, giving police greater flexibility
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-takes-action-to-stop-disruptive-protests
No 10 said it would mean that police “will not need to wait for disruption to take place and can shut protests down before chaos erupts”
“The definition of what counts as serious disruption is key to this bill because it is used as a justification for a whole range of new offences, stop and search powers and banning orders. If you set the bar too low, you are really giving the police a blank cheque to shut down dissent before it has even happened,” Shami Chakrabarti