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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Butler Social policy editor

Ministers to enshrine UK charities’ right to peaceful protest in new ‘covenant’

People stand in a semi-circle around a sign saying 'Free Alaa'
People in London hold a vigil for Laila Soueif, the mother of the human rights activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, who is imprisoned in Egypt. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

The right to engage in political activity and protest peacefully is to be enshrined in a new agreement between the government and UK charities and campaigners aimed in part at ending years of damaging “culture wars”.

The agreement is intended to reset relations between government and the voluntary sector after years of mutual distrust during which Conservative ministers limited public rights to protest, froze out campaigners, and targeted “woke” charities.

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