Biggest demo to hit London since the Iraq war march as 250,000 join the anti-cuts protest - 26th Mar 2011

Hundreds of thousands of protesters have descended on London today in a mass protest being staged against Government cuts in public spending.

The TUC had estimated that around 100,000 union activists and other campaigners would take part in today's demonstration in London, but it was clear that hundreds of thousands had made their way to the capital.

Unofficial estimates said that at least 250,000 demonstrators have packed into central London before a march had even started.

Police fear scores of violent anti-capitalist demonstrators could hijack the anti-cuts demonstration and cause chaos in London’s West End.

Organisers say it will be the largest march since up to a million took to the streets in 2003 to oppose the war in Iraq.

Mr Miliband has hailed it as a ‘march of the mainstream’ and urged people to take to the streets to demand ‘an alternative, to save our services, to show the cuts are going too deep and too fast’. Read More