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Free Speech Union member Linzi Smith brought the successful legal challenge, with support from the campaign group We Are Fair Cop. It centred on the force’s decision to let officers march in Newcastle’s 2024 Pride in the City parade and to staff a police stall draped in Progress flags, alongside a patrol van repainted in the same colours – all while visibly aligning themselves with the political messaging of the event.
Freddie Attenborough, Conservative Home, 25th July 2025.
