Palestine Action has lost a last-ditch High Court bid to avoid being banned as a terrorist organisation by the Labour government. The group’s co-founder Huda Ammori asked a judge to step in to thwart the Home Office’s plan under Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to proscribe the group under the Terrorism Act 2000.

Pro-Palestinian campaign group Palestine Action's co-founder on Friday lost a bid to pause the British government's decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws, though the group is launching an urgent appeal.

The move to ban the organisation was announced after two Voyager aircraft were damaged at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire