Hundreds of Scotland Yard officers are on stand-by in london on Saturday as protesters plan to converge on Trafalgar Square for what has been described as a mass “party” to mark Margaret Thatcher’s death.
The former Conservative Prime Minister died of a stroke on Monday aged 87. In the backdrop of preparations for her ceremonial funeral at St Paul’s Cathedral next Wednesday, former miners who say the ‘Iron lady’ decimated their communities will join socialists, students and anti-capitalist protesters at a demonstration against her legacy in Trafalgar Square on Saturday.
Scotland Yard has launched a major operation to counter threats of disorder and all further leave for officers has been cancelled and operations are being run from a special command and control operations room in lambeth, south london. PTI