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