Met Police Places Restrictions On Climate Strike In London

The Met Police has placed restrictions on part of what is being billed as the world’s largest climate strike on Friday.

Students, workers and campaigners are walking out of lessons and lectures to call for urgent climate action, and are being backed by unions, charities, businesses and politicians.

The marchers had originally planned to leave their workplaces at 10.30am and converge on Westminster Bridge where they were to meet the striking cleaners from the Department of Business before marching on Central London.

But on Thursday the Met Police said in a statement the protest “must take place in Millbank and Abingdon Street London, SW1P, from the stage area on South of Dean Stanley Street, to the junction of Abingdon Street with Parliament Square”.