Are we losing our civil liberties?

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Is Britain becoming a police state?

In this Episode of the Prospect podcast Ellen and Imaan were joined by Conor Gearty, he was a barrister and professor of human rights law at LSE, and explained how his views on the future of protest have changed.

As hundreds have been arrested for supporting the recently proscribed group Palestine Action, Conor discusses his reaction to the ban. He criticises the Labour government’s stance on protest, which he says panders to a “middle covert authoritarianism”.

Conor also weighs in on what’s at stake if Britain leaves the ECHR, and how to fortify democracy. Are protests from the political left and right treated differently? And how should Labour respond to Reform’s rhetoric on human rights?

To read Conor’s writing for Prospect click here: https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/1473/conor-gearty

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