Report: Campaigners claim Miliband saying Palestine Action ban not meant to criminalise ‘grannies’ will help legal challenge – UK politics live

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Defend Our Juries welcomes ‘honesty’ from foreign secretary who has stated ban was not intended to criminalise ‘elderly people, vicars and grannies’ Burnham promises to roll back privatisation with government-backed grid plan Haroon Siddique is the Guardian’s legal affairs correspondent. The report also notes that Ed Miliband has stated it was never anyone’s intent to criminalise “elderly people, vicars and grannies” who have been arrested for supporting Palestine Action. I can’t believe in your heart of hearts that you really think proscribing Palestine Action with all those elderly people and vicars and grannies and so on as a terrorist organisation was a sensible political … I don’t think anyone’s intent was to have those people criminalised. But obviously the supreme court has got to look at this issue and obviously it’s something we keep looking at as government. We welcome the foreign secretary’s honesty on this matter. He has finally admitted that it wasn’t the government’s intention to criminalise people for peacefully protesting against the genocide and the proscription, let alone to treat them as terrorists. Basically he’s acknowledged that the government didn’t properly think the proscription through and that it’s had a disproportionate impact on the right to free speech. You’d think that leaves the government in an impossible position for defending the proscription ahead of the supreme court. We gladly accept the offer Ed Miliband made in Pizza Express to have a conversation with us. Ministers have told The Independent that the prime minister is building the cas

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