12 arrests after climate change activists strip in Commons as MPs debate Brexit
Police have arrested 12 people on suspicion of outraging public decency after climate change activists stripped off to stage a protest in the House of Commons while MPs debated Brexit.
A group of largely-naked Extinction Rebellion protesters with messages painted on their bodies stood up in the public gallery overlooking the debate on Monday night.
Some were pressed against the glass which separates the gallery from the chamber, with police who were sent to the scene to negotiate saying one had "super-glued" themselves to the window.
Some of us did try to warn that no good would come of the Speaker allowing people into the House of Commons chamber without a neck tie ...
— John Woodcock (@JWoodcockMP) April 1, 2019
MPs were seen taking a glance up at the protest and Speaker John Bercow maintained that the debate on the second stage of the Brexit alternatives would proceed despite the protest.
Scotland Yard said: "12 arrests have been made for outraging public decency."
