Priti Patel’s legal crackdown on noisy protests has finally passed after a bitter fight lasting more than a year.
Lords backed down last night over the Police Bill - despite a former senior Scotland Yard officer saying it “puts us on the slippery slope of the erosion of fundamental human rights and the imposition of a police state”.
It means the crackdown - while stripped of some of its most hardline elements earlier in Parliament - will now be approved by the Queen and become law within days.
