‘Chilling’ effect on campaign groups

Freedom to campaign and protest threatened

by Rebecca Hardy 18th December 2020

The UK government is making it harder for campaigning voices to be heard, staff from Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) have said. Writing on the Quakers in Britain website, Grace Da Costa, public affairs and advocacy manager for BYM, sets out the impact of what the blog describes as the ‘chilling effect on civil society’, and shares details of a network formed to counteract it.