EU flag waving Britons rejecting a future outside Europe packed the heart of London on Saturday for an anti-Brexit protest organisers said drew more than half a million people.
AFP: Demonstrators pose for a photograph with their placards at the start of a march calling for a People's Vote on the final Brexit deal, in central London on October 20, 2018.
The police gave no figures for how many showed up for the massive march and rally outside parliament aimed at pressing the government into holding a second Brexit vote.
However, the 570,000 turnout figure reported by campaigners would make the demonstration the largest since 750,000 showed up against the war in Iraq in 2003 according to police figures.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan called Saturday "an historic moment in our democracy" that united "every corner of our country and every section of our society".
The marchers came in buses and trains from across Britain and even other parts of the EU.
They chanted and whistled while marching in support for causes ranging from women's rights to Britain's beloved but underfunded NHS healthcare system.
An online petition demanding a binding vote on any deal agreed before the March deadline had been signed almost 950,000 times by the time the march kicked off under sunny skies.
Prime Minister Theresa May has made it abundantly clear that she has no intention of allowing a Brexit do-over.
"They now want a second referendum to go back to the British people and say 'Oh, we're terribly sorry -- we think you've got it wrong,'" she told parliament on Wednesday.
"There'll be no second referendum. The people voted and this government will deliver on it."
Yet many are not entirely clear on what it actually is that May's government is delivering.
The alternatives facing Britain at the moment seems to range from a clean break without any trade deal to one in which little changes except for London losing its voice in the EU.
