Parliament Square - Demonstrations

Demonstrations

The Parliament Square Peace Campaign is a peace campaign started by Brian Haw in 2001.

In May 2010, a peace camp known as Democracy Village was set up in the square to protest (initially) against the British government's involvement in invasions in the Middle East, which became an eclectic movement encompassing left-wing causes and anti-globalisation protests.

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson appealed to the courts to have them removed and, after demonstrators lost an appeal in July 2010, Lord Neuberger ruled that the protesters camping on the square should be evicted.