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I'm not sure the chief whip is.

Right, let us, we now come to priminist questions. That is the sound of a

bench of Labour MPs taking the piss for want of a better phrase, because every time that a

Tory came into the Chamber for House of Commons for Prime Minister's questions, they looked to

see which side of the bench they were going to sit at. Prime Minister's questions, they looked to see which side

of the bench they were going to sit out. In other words, were they about to defect to become Labour MPs?

Yeah, but so far, it's only half past two in the afternoon, no one has yet defected. Plenty of

rumours, but no defections. We're going to come to that a little later in the podcast,

but we're going to be

asking first about the right to protest and a new government report that is going to come out

next week. We have an exclusive interview with the author of it. Welcome to the news agents.

The newsagents. It's John. It's Emily.

And today we're going to look at protest and whether the laws as they currently stand in our liberal democracy are good enough to deal with people's right to protest to express their unhappiness about the way things are working.

Or whether something has fundamentally

shifted in the way our democracy works and therefore much more draconian measures are needed to be put

in place so that a kind of open functioning democracy happens. And whether the new threat is coming

from the far left, which has been underestimated, as opposed to the far right.

Or as well as the far right.

And this all comes with the publication of a report next week by John Woodcock.

Former Labour MP now sits in the House of Lords as Lord Walney.

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