Yesterday on Parliament 15 Apr 2026
Yesterday in Parliament
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🗓️ 15 April 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Labour MPs unhappy about new protest law
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.4 | Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is yesterday in Parliament from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:10.9 | On Tuesday, the 14th of April, the government was threatened with a rebellion by Labour MPs |
| 0:17.5 | over plans to restrict repeat protests and demonstrations. |
| 0:22.7 | Over the next few weeks, MPs and peers will be engaged in the process known as parliamentary ping-pong, |
| 0:28.8 | as the government seeks to get new laws onto the statute book ahead of the King's speech next month. |
| 0:34.7 | The clerk will now proceed to read the orders of the day. |
| 0:38.2 | Crime and policing bill, consideration of Lords amendments. |
| 0:41.9 | The government suffered a string of defeats when the legislation was considered in the Lords. |
| 0:46.8 | Now the Home Office Minister, Sarah Jones, wanted MPs to reject or rewrite many of the changes |
| 0:53.6 | to what she said was the largest criminal justice bill in a generation. |
| 0:59.0 | This bill will support the government's mission to halve knife crime and violence against women and girls in a decade |
| 1:05.1 | and give our police and law enforcement agencies the tools they need to tackle anti-social behaviour, |
| 1:11.4 | sexual violence, terrorism and online harms. |
| 1:14.9 | Last week, the government announced that it would introduce its own changes to the bill |
| 1:19.2 | to ban online pornography featuring family members and step relations |
| 1:24.4 | in the face of a possible rebellion by MPs and peers. |
| 1:28.6 | And the Minister said she was proposing further changes to hold the bosses of tech firms responsible |
| 1:34.6 | if their websites and platforms failed to remove intimate images of people that had been shared |
| 1:40.8 | without their consent. |
| 1:42.6 | Amendment 256A |
| 1:44.3 | strengthens platform and senior executive accountability |
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