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@WillMelling
I was there. I didn't see any mounted police, though there might have been some somewhere. When I left an hour ago kids were still sitting in the road on parliament square with the police watching and directing traffic round them. The cab protest was in Whitehall. The police also did nothing to stop the young protesters climbing up lampposts, bus shelters, other structures and even, at one point, on to the top of a bus.
I suspect the police were just trying to keep one side of Whitehall open.