An activist known as Stop Brexit Man said playing music outside Parliament is “part of our fundamental right to protest” as he faces a criminal trial.
Steve Bray, 55, was due be tried on Monday over allegations he flouted a police ban this March by putting amplifiers on a traffic island in Parliament Street, London.
Bray, from Port Talbot, is known for playing music in protest around Westminster, including D:Ream’s Things Can Only Get Better at the gates of Downing Street when Rishi Sunak announced the general election in the pouring rain this May.
He appeared at the City of London Magistrates’ Court on Monday after pleading not guilty to failing without reasonable excuse to comply with a direction given under the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 “re prohibited activities in Parliament Square” in August.
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