Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government has renewed its attempts to stop so-called “guerrilla protests” by groups like Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain, and Black Lives Matter, and has threatened to make it a criminal offence for people to glue themselves to buildings or bollards.
Attempts to update the law on public order offences had to be dropped from the Police, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts Bill in the previous Parliament after it was blocked by the House of Lords.
On May 10 the government unveiled a new Public Order Bill which would introduce tougher restrictions on demonstrations in England and Wales.
Last year campaigners from Insulate Britain—who want the government to insulate every home in Britain in order to reduce energy use and carbon emissions—blocked the M25, the orbital motorway around London, and several other roads in order to make their point.
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