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Articles tagged with: police crime sentencing and courts bill
The government must not delay in consigning the Vagrancy Act to history
Home affairs
By Tracey Crouch MP
The government must not delay in consigning the Vagrancy Act to history
"No-one should be criminalised simply for having nowhere to live", the Prime Minister told the House of Commons in October.
Policing Bill must be amended to protect the right to protest and end slippery slope towards authoritarianism
Home affairs
By Baroness Altmann
Policing Bill must be amended to protect the right to protest and end slippery slope towards authoritarianism
Before Christmas, under the cover of darkness, men in masks dismantled one of the last remaining monuments reminding a nation of a heinous crime committed by their own government.
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is a missed opportunity to help women and girls
Home affairs
By Sarah Jones MP
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is a missed opportunity to help women and girls
The Policing Bill is one of the most serious threats to human rights and civil liberties in the UK’s recent history
Home affairs
By Sarah Champion MP
The Policing Bill is one of the most serious threats to human rights and civil liberties in the UK’s recent history
Soft power is how a country’s cultural and economic influence can persuade others to do something. It is summed up in the often-repeated line that “people are more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.” And it is a key part of the UK's approach to strengthening democracy and defending our values around the world.
The Police Bill will trap people in a cycle of eviction and criminalisation – it must be changed
Home affairs
By Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth, Lord Alton, Baroness Whitaker and Lord Bishop of Manchester
The Police Bill will trap people in a cycle of eviction and criminalisation – it must be changed
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill working its way through the Lords seeks not to protect or celebrate our age-old way of life, but to openly discriminate against it.
Installing buffer zones around abortion clinics would be a direct threat to civil liberties
Social affairs
By Desmond Swayne MP
Installing buffer zones around abortion clinics would be a direct threat to civil liberties
If ever passed, a law introducing buffer zones would set a dangerous and unjust precedent for restrictions on other opinions that may challenge the perceived status quo at any given time.
We must introduce buffer zones to stop the harassment of women outside abortion clinics
Home affairs
By Rupa Huq MP and Bernard Jenkin MP
We must introduce buffer zones to stop the harassment of women outside abortion clinics
Images of women having to walk past people holding out plastic babies and telling them they’re murderers do not belong in England.