Lords reject government’s anti-protest crackdown plans

The House of Lords has voted down many of the UK government’s anti-protest measures in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, in a significant victory for UK democracy, as well as for the hundreds of thousands of people who have opposed the punitive legislation, whether through petitions, protests, open letters and emails to MPs.
In a lengthy nighttime session on Monday, peers threw out the government’s plans to:create a new offence of “locking on”, a ta