MPs Urge Keir Starmer to Adopt Extremism Laws for Protest Groups
11th March 2026
Labour MPs have called on Sir Keir Starmer to adopt new Australian-style extremism laws which would see a crackdown on protest groups without labelling them terrorists.
An amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill would give the home secretary the power to designate organisations as “extreme criminal protest groups” if they aimed to cause “sabotage, criminal damage, obstruction of critical national infrastructure, or serious public order offences”.
The amendment passed the House of Lords on Monday by 200 votes to 162, meaning MPs will be given a vote on it in the coming weeks.