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The UK's first case of COVID-19 was confirmed on 31 January 2020. [9] As the number of cases and deaths increased in the subsequent few months, the government enacted emergency powers on 19 March to introduce public health measures in an effort to control the spread of the virus.
Protesting against George W. Bush in 2008. This is a list of protests and protest movements in the United Kingdom.Protest in the UK has concerned issues such as suffrage in the 19th and early 20th centuries, parliamentary reform from the Chartists to the present day, poverty, wages and working conditions, fuel prices, war, human rights, immigration (both for and against), fathers' rights ...
Chatham saw around 150 anti-immigration protesters outnumbering around 50 counter-protesters; [191] in Aldershot, dozens of police had to separate two groups of protesters. Three people were arrested at a counter-protest in Northampton , [ 179 ] and one person was arrested in Bournemouth , [ 192 ] Blackpool, Middlesbrough and Portsmouth . [ 193 ]
People take part in a "Resist and Act for Freedom" protest against a mandatory coronavirus vaccine, wearing masks, social distancing and a second lockdown, in Trafalgar Square, London, Saturday.
Protests against responses to the COVID-19 pandemic Part of the COVID-19 pandemic An anti- lockdown protest at Queen's Park in Toronto, Canada, on 25 April 2020 Date 15 March 2020 – 5 December 2022 (2 years, 8 months, 2 weeks and 6 days) Location Worldwide Caused by Local struggles or opposition to government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic Goals Revocation of COVID-19 lockdowns, mask ...
LONDON (Reuters) -British police braced for further anti-Muslim and anti-migrant riots on Wednesday as far-right groups planned to target asylum centres and immigration law firms across the ...
B ritain was braced for a long night of violent rioting on Wednesday, after a tense week of anti-migrant uprisings swept across the nation.. Around 6,000 specialist officers were deployed by U.K ...
The anti-fascists celebrated the community's united response, in which large numbers of East-Enders of all backgrounds; Protestants, Catholics and Jews successfully resisted Mosley and his followers. There were few Muslims in London at the time, so organisers were also delighted when Muslim Somali seamen joined the anti-fascist crowds. [29]