An anti-Brexit protester said on Wednesday that he might “get a rickshaw” and “have a little whizz around” Parliament after police told him not to blast his amplifiers near the building.
Steve Bray, a regular protester in Westminster known as “Stop Brexit Man,” had other amplifiers seized by police on Tuesday, hours after new laws in the Police, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts (PCSC) Act came into effect.
The new law expanded the “controlled area” around Parliament, meaning amplified noise equipment is banned in a wider area than before.
Other parts of the law, initially designed to target guerrilla protests by groups such as Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion, gave police controversial new powers to set restrictions on noisy and disruptive protests….