Statewatch | Civil Liberties under a Labour government: Repression by a Thousand Cuts
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The UK Labour Party came to power in July 2024 promising change and an end to 14 years of the right-wing rule seen under the Conservative Party. Despite the fanfare, evidence suggests the Labour government has not done anything to roll back the civil liberties restrictions that the ‘Tories’ implemented over their years in power.

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/62224105

The UK has had a Labour party government for nearly two years. Despite Prime Minister Keir Starmer promising that change would “begin immediately”, under his watch the government has continued, and at times intensified, a crackdown on civil liberties begun by his Conservative predecessors. The result is more surveillance, greater potential for police abuse and the criminalisation of nearly all meaningful forms of protest.