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5th October 2021
11:45am BST

Credit: Getty - Priti Patel at the Conservative Party Conference[/caption]
The 'criminal disruption prevention' orders will be used to halt the movement of “prolific offenders” and where there is either a history of disruption or intelligence suggests they are likely to commit a criminal offence during a protest.
Activists have previously been warned they could face fines and up to six months in prison for disrupting major roads across the UK, as well as other critical national infrastructures such as information and network systems, railways, and newspaper printing presses.
These new measures are set to be included in the new Police, Crime, Courts and Sentencing Bill that sparked outrage across the country earlier this year and which is going through Parliament. Patel is set to speak around 5pm, alongside helping deliver the government's latest Covid briefing.