A total of 29 people have been arrested on suspicion of terror offences at a Palestine Action protest, hours after the group were officially proscribed by the government.
A mass of Metropolitan Police officers circled dozens of protesters standing silently beneath the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Parliament Square. Labour MP Clive Lewis pointed to the location of the arrests and the fact that those arrested included “a priest, a professor, medics”. “This is not about terrorism. It’s about silencing dissent – and it’s leading us down an ever-darkening path,” Mr Lewis wrote on X (Twitter).
