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Politics Weekly UK

A government fearful of protest: Politics Weekly podcast

Politics Weekly UK

The Guardian

News, Politics

4.01.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Heather Stewart and Aubrey Allegretti discuss the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, and the integrated defence review. Peter Walker talks to Richard Adams and Justine Greening about government plans to help children who have missed out on vital schooling in the last year. Plus, Anand Menon updates us on the fraught relationship between the UK and the EU. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/politicspod

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0:39.6

MPs vote to give the police more powers to crack down on protests in England and Wales

0:43.9

as women across the country vow to raise their voices.

0:47.0

I'm Heather Stewart, political editor of TheGuardian and this is Politics Weekly.

0:57.4

He mentions the bill last night.

1:00.4

That provided for longer maximum sentences for damaging a memorial than the sentences imposed

1:07.0

in the three cases of rape I've referred the House to all of those sentences less than

1:12.4

10 years.

1:13.8

If like me you watched infuriates disbelief this weekend as police arrested women as a

1:17.9

vigil for Sarah Everard, the woman killed while walking home, then you might be surprised

1:22.0

to hear that the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, which gives police more powers

1:26.6

to crack down on protests, passed its second reading in the House of Commons on Tuesday

1:30.4

night.

1:31.4

Labour MPs were swayed to vote against the proposed law after the events of the weekend,

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