VoteClimate: Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill - 15th October 2020

Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill - 15th October 2020

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-10-15/debates/ADEDB9E4-6D5F-4445-9971-D9F239FED9BD/CovertHumanIntelligenceSources(CriminalConduct)Bill

13:30 Sir Robert Neill (Streatham) (Lab)

as legitimate grounds for the authorisation of criminality. These grounds are ill defined and wide-ranging, not to mention open to outright political abuse. Again, I point to where they have already abused. We know that using undercover police, allegedly posing as protesters, to commit crimes and provoke violence, including a violent response from the authorities, has been reported as an ongoing tactic and discussed in the public domain in recent years, including more recently in the past few months, with regard to the Black Lives Matter protests and climate change and G20 demonstrations. All of these necessarily constitute an unlawful interference.

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