‘Stop Brexit Guy’ defends right to protest

Anti-Brexit campaigner Steve Bray defended his ‘fundamental right to protest’ as he appeared in court charged with flouting a police ban by placing amplifiers in the road next to Parliament Square. The 55-year-old activist, dubbed the ‘Stop Brexit Guy’, told City of London Magistrates’ Court: ‘We were not supergluing, we were not chaining ourselves, we were not throwing paint over stuff.’ Bray placed amplifiers within a zone around the Houses of Parliament after allegedly being warned not to by police,…