A co-founder of Palestine Action (PA) has won the right to a High Court challenge over the group’s ban as a terror organisation.

Huda Ammori was granted permission on grounds that the proscription of PA was a “disproportionate interference with freedom of expression and freedom of protest”.

The challenge was also permitted on the basis that the Home Secretary should have consulted the group before announcing the ban.

The Government’s move to proscribe the organisation came after two planes were vandalised at RAF Brize Norton on June 20 in an action claimed by Palestine Action.

Announcing the intention to ban the group on June 23, Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, said it was the latest in a “long history of unacceptable criminal damage committed by Palestine Action”.