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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damien Gayle

Police to get powers to ban slow walking in traffic amid Just Stop Oil protests

Just Stop Oil climate activists march in central London as part of their campaign calling on the UK government to end approval for exploring, developing and producing fossil fuels.
Just Stop Oil climate activists march in central London as part of their campaign calling on the UK government to end approval for exploring, developing and producing fossil fuels. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

Suella Braverman is to give police the power to ban slow walking in traffic by protesters, as Just Stop Oil enters the fifth consecutive day of using the tactic in the latest phase of its climate protest campaign.

The home secretary said a statutory instrument to the public order bill, which passed its final stages in parliament on Wednesday, would stop what she described as the “selfish disruptive protesters [who] are wreaking havoc in people’s everyday lives across the country”.

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