Met accused of bowing to political pressure with Palestine march curbs

Police and protesters at a march in November. The protests have regularly ended both at Trafalgar Square and Whitehall. Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AFP/Getty Images

The Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, has been accused of bowing to political pressure by banning pro-Palestine demonstrators from ending their march this Saturday with a rally outside Downing Street.

The marches in London have regularly ended both at Trafalgar Square and near Downing Street on Whitehall to allow the huge crowds to safely disperse from two locations.