Overview

• Suella Braverman, the former Home Secretary, has proposed a four-point plan to tackle mass extremism in the UK, including giving ministers the power to ban protests.
• Braverman criticizes the police for insufficient action against pro-Palestinian marches, labeling them as 'hateful' and a display of 'vicious bigotry'.
• The proposed changes include making it easier to prosecute expressions of support for terrorism and anti-Semitic chants, as well as proscribing groups of 'extremist concern'.
• Braverman's proposals go beyond the government's expected new protest laws, which include jailing protesters who desecrate war memorials and banning masks and fireworks at demonstrations.
• The call for legislative reform comes in the wake of regular, large-scale pro-Palestinian protests in the UK, which Braverman and others have condemned for certain chants and slogans.