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This is a global player original podcast. We are three days out from the coronation. But last night,

the Home Secretary gave the police brand new powers to stop disruption. And those brand new powers come

with really heavy custodial sentences if you get things wrong. Listen to Suella Braverman from last night.

The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. But this doesn't extend to locking yourself onto motorway gantry,

gluing yourself onto historic buildings or digging dangerous tunnels.

Such selfish acts risk lives.

They drag our police away from communities

and they stop hardworking people from simply getting to work.

Now, these harmful acts will be met with proper penalties and with extended powers, the police can stop activists' intent on disruption before they can strike.

Those who seek to attack our ways of life repeatedly will be met with court orders, preventing them from causing chaos again.

I should add that the music bed that you hear there is on the video released by the Home Office,

not one that the newsagents decided to put on to give it a bit more atmosphere.

It seems that the government is using strange powers, the statutory instruments,

to force through changes to the right to protest just before the coronation,

maybe calculating that, well, who's going to object

if this happens now just beforehand, where maybe

there'd be a little more alarm if it were to happen post coronation.

And one question, is our right to protest being curtailed?

Welcome to the newsagents.

The newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. And it's Lewis. And in a moment we're going to be

talking to a former permanent secretary about the appointment of Sue Gray to become the next chief of staff to Kyrs

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