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Sir Peter Fahy, the former Greater Manchester police chief constable, told Times Radio this morning that he was concerned about the provisions in the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill that will give the police new powers to restrict demonstrations. He said:
If we’ve learned one thing this weekend, it’s the right to protest, the right to gather, the right to have a voice is fundamental to our democracy, and particularly British democracy.
And bringing in legislation on the back of the Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion demonstrations, rushing that legislation through, putting in some really dodgy definitions which the police are supposed to make sense of …
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