Referring to these “haters”, Pete Wishart suggested Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood was “allowing them to dictate our approach to protest and alter basic freedoms that we have always enjoyed”. Ms Mahmood has proposed changes to Sections 12 and 14 of the Public Order Act 1986, to allow authorities to consider the cumulative impact of frequent and repeated protests, when deciding whether to introduce conditions such as a change of route or the time of the events. Her announcement earlier this month followed a wave of pro-Palestine demonstrations, which Ms Mahmood previously said had created “considerable fear” among Jewish communities. One...