Met faces legal action after refusing to police ‘March of the Mummies’

Campaigners accuse force of trying to prevent women from organising' over childcare protest in London

The Metropolitan police are facing legal action after they refused to police a major protest by mothers against the cost of childcare in central London, weeks before it was scheduled to take place.

Campaigners accused the Met of again trying to prevent women from organising", six months after a court found it breached the rights of women trying to organise following the murder of Sarah Everard.