https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-march-against-tories-in-manchester

Meanwhile, police officers criticised for searching campaigners’ coach and ‘undermining their right to protest’

THOUSANDS of people marched through the streets of Manchester today telling delegates to the Tory Party conference there that they are not welcome.

Headed by the banner of the Manchester People’s Assembly, which organised the march with the national People’s Assembly, the protesters represented trade unions and a huge diversity of campaign groups expressing their anger at the destruction wrought across society by the Tories.

Disabled people, peace activists and dozens more groups marched noisily through the city centre.

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Protesters from all across the country took coaches to attend the march.

One coach transporting protesters from London was stopped by the police, who signalled the bus to follow them to Knutsford in Cheshire where it was searched by around 30 officers.

The protesters were late as a result. Activists said it undermined their right to protest and was a waste of police time and money.

Lorraine Douglas, from the Communist Party, said: “The sergeant came on and said they’d received intelligence that there were people on the bus set on doing criminal damage and they were going to search the bus for equipment that could cause criminal damage.”

The police went on to read a section of the Public Order Act.

“They refused to say what the intelligence was, and they got us all off the bus and searched the bus, found one flare and it looked like they had some magic markers or pens,” Ms Douglas said.

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thousands-march-against-tories-in-manchester

Are the police targeting Communists?