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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Andrew Sparrow

Anti-apartheid activists would have been called terrorists under logic banning Palestine Action, Peter Hain says – as it happened

Peter Hain speaking in the Lords
Peter Hain speaking in the Lords. Photograph: HoL

Early evening summary

  • The Labour peer Peter Hain, who was a leading anti-apartheid campaigner in the UK and who led the direct action protests that disrupted South African rugby and cricket tours in 1969 and 1970, has told peers that he is “deeply ashamed” that his party is banning Palestine Action. (See 4.48pm.) He was speaking in a Lords debate to approve the order banning the group. Peers have just voted, and the amendment condeming the ban was voted down, by 144 votes to 16. The order has just been passed.

Updated

Jenny Jones calls for a vote on her amendment. (See 4.25pm.) Peers are now voting.

The government is expected to win comfortably.

In the Commons yesterday 382 MPs voted to ban Palestine Action and only 26 MPs (nine of them Labour) voted against.

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