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Incorrect.
Jury trials were suspended for 3 months in 2020 due to covid - March through June 2020 and reinstated when safety measures had been put in place.
https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/the-jurys-out-covid-19-impact-on-jury-trials/
That is entirely different and separate to the proposal to bin jury trials by Labour several years later which has (fortunately) been canned by Burnham (links in previous reply)
Cancelled the right to protest is also literally incorrect, but accepting that as a rhetorical position I agree that ridiculous and inappropriate restrictions have been placed on protest. Having said that, it's entirely consistent with the last 250 years of the establishment trying to muzzle protest. There has always been a push and pull in this space, I wish the English were more like the French in that regard but the key difference is cultural - the French are taught in school that protest is their human right, the English are (culturally) taught to not complain and soldier on.