Two years ago, Suella Braverman made a law she had no power to make.
The then Conservative home secretary ignored normal parliamentary process to sneak unlawful anti-protest measures in by the back door.
Her new law fundamentally changed the threshold at which police could impose conditions on a protest in England and Wales. It went from anything that caused ‘serious disruption’ – itself a vague phrase that Braverman was asked to define but didn’t – to anything that caused ‘more than minor’ disruption.
