DEFIANT campaigners vowed to continue fighting draconian new protest laws on the streets today as shameless Tory MPs waved through the measures. 

The Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Bill passed its third reading in the Commons last night by 365 votes to 265 despite mounting opposition from politicians, activists and even senior police over its threat to the right to protest. 

But campaign groups said efforts to lobby the government to drop the Bill were unlikely to make a difference, and called for it to be defeated in the streets. 

A spokesperson from Sisters Uncut, a campaign group in the Kill the BIll coalition, said: "While we of course might have hoped for a different outcome in parliament, expecting Tory MPs to grow a moral backbone was always a bit of a reach, although there is still some time for them to come around. Regardless, we fully intend to fight and defeat this bill in the streets - we will not allow it to be enacted, passed or not. Priti made a mistake by attacking all of us - if they plan to govern away our communities’ lives then we will become ungovernable."

A spokesperson from Extinction Rebellion, one of the main targets of the anti-protest legislation, said they were unsurprised that MPs had passed the Bill. 

“Extinction Rebellion will continue to break laws until the government acts to protect communities rather than protect business as usual, which is leading us to extinction,” they vowed. 

The proposed legislation will allow police to impose restrictions on protests based on noise and create criminal offences for demonstrators who cause “serious annoyance.” 

On Monday evening, the Lib Dems failed to throw out these proposals after their amendment was voted down by 354 to 273. 

MPs raised concerns during the debate about the lack of time afforded to deliberate the mammoth Bill, running to more than 300 pages, ahead of a vote. 

The Bill will now move to the House of Lords largely unamended.

Labour slammed the Tories for rejecting proposed changes to tackle violence against women and girls and provide protections for shopkeepers against abuse. 

Shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds said the Bill “shows the priorities of this government are all wrong.” 

Several Tories raised concerns about the Bill’s threat to the right to protest but not one voted against the legislation. 

During yesterday’s debate, SNP Glasgow East MP Anne McLoughlin said proposals in the Bill targeting Gypsy, Traveller and Roma (GTR) communities sickened her to the core.

She urged MPs to speak to GTR campaigners set to protest outside Parliament today from 1pm. 

“I will be there, but the irony is not lost on me,” she told the Commons. “If this Bill passes unamended, not only will they face losing their homes for minor infringement of the law but they won’t ever be able to protest against that by demonstrating across the road.”