Pride in London 2022: huge turnout at first march since pandemic – as it happened

Rolling coverage of the annual LGBTQ+ celebrations in the capital as events mark 50th anniversary of the UK's first Pride parade

• Pride should return to radical roots, says Peter Tatchell
• More than a million expected to gather in the capital
• I felt for the first time I wasn't alone': how Pride transformed lives

Our reporter David Batty writes:

Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has called on the UK's largest Pride event to return to its radical political roots, saying the 1972 march was about wider social change, not just equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community.