The Tories are pressing ahead with an "authoritarian" crackdown on protests despite being told it could breach human rights.
Priti Patel's Police and Crime Bill which will make it illegal to inflict “serious annoyance” or "noisy" protests without reasonable excuse, punishable by up to 10 years’ jail.
Lawyers, policing figures and MPs have warned the Home Secretary it risks a disproportionate attack on free speech and the right to free expression.
But despite repeated calls to change the legislation, the Government refused and voted down Labour attempts in the Commons to curb the draconian measures.
MPs voted for the bill to pass its third reading by 365 to 265.
Labour ’s Sarah Jones told MPs the law to restrict demonstrations “threatens the fundamental balance between the police and the people”.
She warned that Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services had called for a “modest reset of the scales on public order legislation”, and it went too far.
The Bill contains a string of measures to toughen up the police response after Extinction Rebellion and Black Lives Matters protests were accused of disrupting public life.
Measures in the Bill also include imposing up to 10 years’ jail on people who vandalise statues - up from three months.
It will also create new offences against obstructing the road or using a loudspeaker at the gates of Parliament.
The legislation has been lambasted by United Nations experts and police chiefs have broken ranks to say they did not ask for the new powers.
Ms Jones said: “The new measures in the Bill target protesters for being too noisy and causing serious unease or serious annoyance.”
She added: “The point of protest is to capture attention, protests are noisy, sometimes they are annoying, but they are as fundamental to our democracy as our Parliament.”
Labour MP Rebecca Long-Bailey, meanwhile, said the "authoritarian" move would "stifle" free speech.
The Government attempted to defend the move, with Home Office Minister Victoria Atkins saying "it balances that freedom against the rights and liberties of others".
She added: “It will continue to be the case that the police attach conditions to only a small proportion of protests and just to put this in context, in a three-month period earlier this year the NPCC (National Police Chiefs’ Council) assessed that out of more than 2,500 protests no more than a dozen had conditions attached to them.”
Former Cabinet minister David Davis agreed, adding: “It was clearly a breach of the normal reasoning behind a demonstration when somebody glues themselves to a train with the direct intention of inconveniencing everybody else, but demonstrations do lead to inconvenience.”
Pointing to a letter in The Times from a number of police chiefs airing their concerns, he said: “And so it hasn’t just been the sort of lefty liberal legal fraternity that have been worried about this.
The Government also voted down a Labour amendment to the Bill which would have introduced a minimum sentence for rape.
An amendment to demand thugs who attack shop workers face up to 12 months in jail was withdrawn by Tory MP Matt Vickers before it was voted upon.
It's understood the Government has agreed to introduce a similar measure when the bill reaches the House of Lords.
The Government also said it is looking at whether it can bring forward other amendments on street harassment and extending the time limit on domestic abuse case prosecutions.
