Picketing

Part of Orders of the Day — Employment Bill – in the House of Commons at 7:15 pm on 30 April 1980.

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Photo of Mr Harold Walker Mr Harold Walker , Doncaster 7:15, 30 April 1980

The hon. Gentleman pointed out that some at least of those who were involved in these matters had been arrested; therefore the present law empowered the police to act against them. Presumably, those who did it did so in defiance of the present law. Will the hon. Gentleman tell me in what respect changing the law is likely to deter them any more in the future than the present law has done? If the law at present is able to make provision for their arrest, why is it necessary to change the law, when the powers required by the police seem to be in existence already?