Restore the right to protest, says BYM

Recording clerk Paul Parker has written to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper calling for the right to protest to be restored

by Rebecca Hardy 30th August 2024

Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) is calling on the government to restore the right to protest and freedom of speech.

In a letter to Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, Paul Parker, recording clerk of BYM, said people’s rights and civil liberties were being undermined by legislation such as the Public Order Act, and the government must work to restore them.