Dozens of environmental activists have been arrested as they attempted to block MPs from entering parliament on the first day back after the summer recess.
Thousands of protesters from Extinction Rebellion, the climate action group, descended on Westminster today where they aimed to blockade parliament by setting up camp on the roads immediately in front of it.
Activists gathered at sites including Tate Britain, Trafalgar Square, Buckingham Palace and Westminster Cathedral, before marching on Parliament Square.
Police initially prevented demonstrators from blocking the roads, by corralling them in the square. However, by mid-afternoon, hundreds of activists had broken through a police cordon and sat down in the middle of roads, forcing traffic to stop.
As of 4pm as many as 40 climate campaigners had
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2020-09-01 16:00:00Z
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