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🧵The @UKHouseofLords will debate an important constitutional question later today (13/6). Should the Government be able to bring back a policy proposal via a Statutory Instrument (SI) that it could not get through Parliament in primary legislation earlier in the same Session? 1/
The SI concerns changes to the threshold for #seriousdisruption for the policing of certain types of protest. The proposals were first introduced in Jan as a late amendment to the Public Order Bill at report stage in the Lords and after the Bill had been though the Commons. 2/
Peers rejected the amendment by 254 votes to 240. But a few days before the Public Order Bill had even received Royal Assent the Government reintroduced the proposals in the form of a Statutory Instrument (SI). 3/
