Eliza MBNetpol asked the Home Office what evidence they had to support the new amendment that would criminalise protests outside MPs homes.
Rather that say it did not hold this information, the Home Office instead responded by insisting it would cost too much to gather this data – confirming, inadvertently, that it had gathered no evidence to support the amendment it is proposing.
Another piece of authoritarian anti-protest legislation backed by zero evidence is now imminent.