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Evening Standard
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Robbie Smith

Londoner’s Diary: Anna Soubry says law to prevent protests near Parliament is verging on a nonsense

A new week and a new Londoner’s Diary: First up, former Conservative Minister Anna Soubry dimisses the government’s new policing bill, telling us it is “headline-grabbing, easy, and therefore dishonest, politics”. Later, Bernardine Evaristo calls for more black, British women in the “literature ecosystem” as publishers, editors and critics, whilst Wolf Alice’s bassist reveals the secret feelings behind the band’s music. Then in SW1A, we hear how Dame Louise Casey nabbed herself top job and Theresa Villiers gets voters remorse.

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