Stop and search proposal in Public Order Bill heavily defeated

Peers also back restrictions on the use of protest banning orders, and stripped out completely a provision that would have allowed the sanction to be imposed against people who had not been convicted of any offence.

Legislation in the Public Order Bill that would allow officers to search people without suspicion in a designated area to look for items that could be used in offences such as “locking on” has been heavily defeated in the House of...