Defending the group's proscription under terror law, she said the organisation was "not a non-violent organisation".

The home secretary Yvette Cooper has faced intense criticism for choosing to proscribe PA, even from fellow Labour MPs like Clive Lewis, who warned the proscription “undermined democracy” and told parliament it risks “confusing dissent and terror”.

The group was proscribed as a terror organisation in July, but hundreds of people, many of pension age, took to the streets this weekend to defend them.