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HOME AFFAIRS – EXTINCTION REBELLION AND LAW-BREAKING - 07 September 2020

HOME AFFAIRS – EXTINCTION REBELLION AND LAW-BREAKING - 07 September 2020

Dr Julian Lewis: It is true that various brands of Corbynism are a little less popular these days, but does my hon. Friend agree that fining a climate change denier £10,000 for an anti-lockdown protest sets a benchmark which should equally apply to those who break the law in pursuit of more fashionable causes?

[The Minister for Crime and Policing (Kit Malthouse): As the right hon. Gentleman may know, a number of fixed penalty fines have been handed out over the past few days for all manner of contraventions of the coronavirus regulations. No doubt some may be disputed, but we shall see in the end where the courts decide.]