Steve Bray and his campaign group, often blasting protest songs and confronting Tory MPs, have been a long-running fixture on Parliament Square. But police confiscated Mr Bray's equipment using new powers in the government's controversial Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act which took effect yesterday. Around 15 officers descended on the long-running demonstration, warning the protesters that if they resisted they would be arrested.
Home secretary Priti Patel's new law extended a "controlled area" around parliament to include Parliament Square and other side streets, where the protest has based itself. Police wasted no time to crack down on the dissenters, confiscating the equipment just 10 hours after they gained the powers to do so.
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