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Legislate to ban participants wearing face coverings at demonstrations
Government should introduce legislation to make it an offence to attend a demonstration or counter-demonstration wearing face coverings. All participants should be showing their faces, or, be arrested so that they can be identified.
Last fetched 03 May 2026 · petition.parliament.uk
Signatures
343
signatures
Government response threshold (10,000) · 343/10,000
Debate threshold (100,000) · 343/100,000
Background
Introduce legislation that would result in the arrest of any attendee of a demonstration/protest wearing face covering (ie a mask/balaclava) and removal from the scene.