Anti-austerity protests: tens of thousands rally across UK

Between 70,000 and 150,000 estimated to have marched in central London, with demonstrations in Glasgow, Liverpool and Bristol

Forty-four days after David Cameron won an unexpected majority in the general election, the opposition parties are still picking themselves up off the floor. On Britain's streets, however, tens of thousands of people took up their placards and marched in London, Glasgow and elsewhere in the first major protest against the government's plans for five more years of austerity.

Estimates of the size of the rally in central London on Saturday varied between 70,000 and more than 150,000. Several thousand more gathered in Glasgow's George Square and smaller demonstrations were reported in other cities, including Liverpool and Bristol.

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