Police have been granted new powers to impose conditions on repeat protests to "close a gap in the law", the home secretary has said.

Shabana Mahmood told Sky News' Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips that the changes, announced earlier this morning , would allow communities to "go about their daily business without feeling intimidated".

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It follows the arrests of nearly 500 people during demonstrations in support of the proscribed group Palestine Action in central London on Saturday.

Protesters defied calls to rethink the event in the wake of the Manchester synagogue terror attack on Thursday, in which two Jewish worshippers were killed.

The new powers will allow police forces to consider the "cumulative impa

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