![]() Marchers will be asked by organisers to disperse at 4pm, with the police having put a 5pm deadline on when the march must end. The route goes past Grosvenor Place and Victoria, then over Vauxhall Road and on to Nine Elms and past the US embassy. People are being asked to assemble at about midday at Park Lane before starting the march at 12.45pm. They said they remained confident the event would still pass off peacefully. The organisers’ request for two end points for the march, in order to alleviate the pressure on their stewards, was declined by the police on Thursday. There is little doubt among senior officers that there will be flashpoints at various times on Saturday, with concerns that groups could splinter off from the main march to cause disruption, and that far-right elements could seek to exploit the occasion. ![]() In a statement issued on the eve of the march, the PSC said: “More than 500,000 people are expected to converge in London, making it one of the largest political marches in British history.” “We think it is going to be huge,” Jamal said. ![]() On a stage set up near where Nine Elms becomes Battersea Park Road, speeches will be made by the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the actors Juliet Stevenson and Maxine Peake, and the head of the Palestinian mission to the UK, Husam Zomlot, among others. Ben Jamal, the director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), a lead organiser of the march, said he understood that people would be travelling from all over the UK to march on Saturday from Park Lane towards the US embassy in south-west London.
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