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List of protests in the United Kingdom

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List of protests in the United Kingdom
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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, LGBTQ rights and climate change. In Northern Ireland, protest marches have been particularly contentious, including Bloody Sunday.

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Protesting against George W. Bush in 2008

Around April 2019 London's Metropolitan Police decided, as a matter of policy, to stop providing crowd estimates unless there were specific reasons to do so (criminal justice, national security).[1] This policy appears to have been reversed in late 2023, with the media reporting official police estimates for crowds from October that year, as shown in the table.

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Suffrage and democracy

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A British suffragette

Poverty

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Make Poverty History marchers in Edinburgh in 2005

Labour disputes

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Miners' strike rally in London, 1984
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Picket outside BBC Bristol in 2006
See Category:Labour disputes in the United Kingdom

Rights

Race and immigration

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March against the National Front in Brick Lane, 1978
See also Category:Race riots in the United Kingdom

Taxation

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Anti-Poll Tax graffiti

Environment

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Flash mob protest at Heathrow Terminal 5

Animal rights

War

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Protesters against the war on Iraq

Nuclear

Religion

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Protest by Anonymous in London in 2008 against Scientology

Art and culture

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Stuckist demonstration outside the White Cube gallery

Foreign policy

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Pro-Tibet protesters at Olympic torch relay in London in 2008

Anti-capitalist/anti-globalisation

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Black bloc at the 2009 G20 protests

Troubles in Northern Ireland

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Memorial march in 2007 for Bloody Sunday

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