Police have clashed with disability rights protesters trying to get into the House of Commons chamber during Prime Ministers’ Questions.
In noisy scenes in Westminster’s Cental Lobby police lined up outside the entrance to the chamber to stop the protesters, including around 10 in wheelchairs, from getting in.
One woman was led away by police as she tried to get into the chamber.
Another protester, Mary Johnson, from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, said: “We tried to get down there because the Government needs to listen. We tried to get into the chamber but we were stopped by police.”
She said she witnessed one protester being “dragged away by police” claiming officers’ behaviour was “disgusting” and that they had been “pushing wheelchairs around”.
The protesters were from a group called Disabled People Against Cuts which is campaigning against the end of the Independent Living Fund.
Protesters try to storm Prime Minister’s Questions
