Police are to be given more powers to combat new tactics taken by protesters that are designed to cause maximum disruption.
Just Stop Oil’s most recent protests in the autumn involved slowly walking through streets in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, and Holborn, in central London, to bring traffic to a crawl.
Downing Street said that it was looking at what extra powers could assist police in stopping the tactics from causing disruption to people’s lives.
An amendment is expected to be added to the Public Order Bill, which is going through parliament and is intended to restrict disruptive protests. It is expected to complete its passage in the next few weeks. Rishi Sunak wrote an article for the Conservative Home website yesterday arguing that disruptive
