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Policing Bill risks 'disempowering everyone,' Jeremy Corbyn warns as Kill the Bill rallies sweep Britain
Demonstrators rally against the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill in Manchester

THE POLICING BILL risks “disempowering everyone in Britain,” Jeremy Corbyn told crowds in London at the weekend as thousands marched against the new laws. 

Dozens of Kill the Bill demos were held across the country on Saturday ahead of a crucial vote in the Lords today on the government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill. 

Addressing crowds in Parliament Square, the former Labour leader said that plans to restrict the right to protest would lead to every demonstration becoming a “conflict about having the protest rather than what the protest is about.

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