ABSTRACT
Youth-led protest in various forms has increased in contemporary Britain; in parallel, state governance and surveillance of dissent has grown. This chapter documents the main protests involving young people, changes to legislation pertaining to protests and evolutions in policing methods. It reveals greater legislative regulation of dissent, greater monitoring of protests and protesters, and a more militarised police force. These intertwined and repressive evolutions in the regulation, governance and surveillance of young people’s political dissent are inconsistent with the Human Rights Act 1998, and they have a dissuasive effect on the democratic and constitutional right to protest of young people.
