Police officers carry a protester during a protest to support Palestine Action in London, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025.(AP Photo/Joanna Chan)

Labour are being accused of being “worse than the Tories” with the new government crackdown on protests.

The Home Office announced on Sunday that it would be granting police forces new powers to put conditions on repeat demonstrations.

That means if a protest has taken place at the same site for weeks on end and caused “repeated disorder”, officers could force organisers to hold the event elsewhere.

The Home Office said anyone who breaches these conditions risk arrest and prosecution.

It comes after the Met Police arrested nearly 500 people at protest against the proscription of the Palestine Action group in London on Saturday.

The march went ahead despite calls from the government and the police for the protests to be postponed out of respect for Thursday’s deadly synagogue attack in Manchester where two people were killed.

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood said current legislation is also being reviewed to make sure it is being applied fully.

Mahmood said: “The right to protest is a fundamental freedom in our country. However, this freedom must be balanced with the freedom of their neighbours to live their lives without fear.”

She added: “Large, repeated protests can leave sections of our country, particularly religious communities, feeling unsafe, intimidated and scared to leave their homes. 

“This has been particularly evident in relation to the considerable fear within the Jewish community, which has been expressed to me on many occasions in these recent difficult........

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