Overview

• Protesters marched from Portland Place to Whitehall to denounce cuts such as scrapping winter fuel payments, upholding the two-child benefit cap and slashing £5 billion of welfare funding.
• Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and MP Diane Abbott spoke to the crowd alongside trade union figures and activists from the NEU, Green Party and RMT union.
• Demonstrators held placards reading "Tax the rich, stop the cuts – welfare not warfare" and "Nurses not nukes" to demand wealth taxes fund the NHS, education and community services.
• The People’s Assembly presented the march under the slogan "No to Austerity 2.0" as a stand against far-right scapegoating and in defence of issues from healthcare and housing to refugee rights.
• Organizers described the march as largely peaceful, with no major incidents reported during speeches and the procession through central London.