{"id":166141,"date":"2025-09-28T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166141\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T14:39:07","slug":"traffic-blocked-as-large-numbers-of-people-gather-on-the-strand-in-liverpool-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166141\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic blocked as large numbers of people gather on The Strand in Liverpool city centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

A number of scooters and two tractors were also seen taking part in a large protest\"AA protest has been taking place across The Strand in Liverpool <\/p>\n

Parts of one of Liverpool’s busiest roads were blocked today as a major protest was held. Images and video show large numbers of people gathered on The Strand, blocking the path of traffic through the busy city centre route.<\/a><\/p>\n

As well as the many people forming the protest, footage shows a number of scooters involved with the demonstration as well as two large tractors, making their way along The Strand<\/a>. Vehicles can be seen struggling to get past the area.<\/p>\n

The protest has been taking place close to the Liverpool Arena and Convention Centre<\/a>, which is where the Labour Party<\/a> Conference <\/a>is taking place for the fourth year running.<\/p>\n

On Saturday Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Liverpool and visited the ECHO office<\/a> to speak to local school children before heading to the conference, which began in earnest today.<\/p>\n

\"AA major protest has been taking place across The Strand in Liverpool <\/p>\n

The Prime Minister comes into the conference in a tricky spot, with his personal and party polling numbers very low and following a number of scandals and resignations from his top team.<\/p>\n

He and his government will also be facing a range of protests during their time in Liverpool – including the one witnessed on The Strand today.<\/p>\n

It appears that the demonstration in question involves farmers, who are unhappy with the government’s family farm tax policy.<\/p>\n

The Farmers To Action (FTA) group are running a month-long “Trailer of Truth” tour, which begins today in Liverpool to time with the start of the Labour Conference.<\/p>\n

The protest’s primary demand is for Labour to scrap its proposed farm inheritance tax due from April 2026, according to Farmers Weekly.<\/p>\n

But while the farming theme appears to be the predominant one in today’s protest, a number of people voicing other concerns have joined the demonstration.<\/p>\n

\"AA major protest has been taking place across The Strand in Liverpool <\/p>\n

Images show some people holding up signs stating ‘no to digital ID’ in reference to the government’s recent announcement that a new digital ID will be mandatory for anyone in order to work in the UK.<\/p>\n

Sir Keir said last week that the new digital ID scheme would make it tougher to work illegally in the UK and would offer “countless benefits” to citizens.<\/p>\n

However he is facing plenty of opposition to the plans, with 1.6 million people already signing a petition objecting to the scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of scooters and two tractors were also seen taking part in a large protestA protest has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,75155,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-166141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-labour-party-conference","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}