Despite more than a year of protests as these bills progressed through parliament, despite the House of Lords voting down parts of the bills on numerous occasions, and despite human rights lawyers and activists raising serious concerns at committee stage, the government has used its large and unrepresentative majority to force through a set of dangerous assaults on UK citizens’ rights which will now come into law after the Queen’s Speech on May 10th, after being rushed through to receive Royal Assent last week.

We interviewed Bhavini and Aria from Kill The Bill Coalition just after the news broke.

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1 The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022

2 The Nationality and Borders Act 2022

3 The Elections Act

4 The Health and Care Act

5 The Judicial Review and Courts Act

What is most chilling about last week’s Royal Assent is how such huge changes in government power has had so little corporate media coverage.

The worry now is how the new laws will be implemented after the Queen’s Speech next week. The fear is they will be used incrementally and selectively, and the only way to combat that approach is to mobilise quickly. We won’t be looking to corporate media to help with that.

Read more at realmedia.press/authoritarian-acts-get-royal-assent

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