26 min

Can we stop the government criminalising protest? With Jodie Beck of Liberty The New Statesman Podcast

    • Politics

Last week the government faced multiple defeats in the House of Lords on its wide-ranging Public Order Bill, which have peers warned would have a chilling effect on the right to protest.
As the government continues to try to push its legislation through, Jodie Beck, head of policy and campaigns at the human rights organisation Liberty, talks to Rachel Cunliffe about why this bill is so controversial, how it will criminalise perfectly normal acts, and whether anything can be done to stop the assault on civil liberties.
Watch our video on the Crime and Policing Act
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Last week the government faced multiple defeats in the House of Lords on its wide-ranging Public Order Bill, which have peers warned would have a chilling effect on the right to protest.
As the government continues to try to push its legislation through, Jodie Beck, head of policy and campaigns at the human rights organisation Liberty, talks to Rachel Cunliffe about why this bill is so controversial, how it will criminalise perfectly normal acts, and whether anything can be done to stop the assault on civil liberties.
Watch our video on the Crime and Policing Act
If you have a question for You Ask Us, go to https://newstatesman.com/youaskus 


Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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