{"id":1068520,"date":"2026-07-04T18:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1068520\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T18:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:52:23","slug":"watch-london-pride-campaigners-express-fears-over-reform-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1068520\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: London Pride campaigners express fears over Reform UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:The Independent US;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"The Independent US\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"271\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2022-12\/ae90c5b0-7c98-11ed-befe-1be805a50c91.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Sat, July 4, 2026 at 6:20 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"651\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_the_independent_us_877\/077a2e0111385f1c445abbd545aebe8c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Watch: London Pride campaigners express fears over Reform UK<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of <a data-ylk=\"slk:activists;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/activists\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">activists<\/a> have marched through London in the capital&#8217;s LGBTQ+ <a data-ylk=\"slk:Pride;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/pride\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Pride<\/a> parade on Saturday (4 July) as campaigners expressed <a data-ylk=\"slk:fears;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/fears\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">fears<\/a> over <a data-ylk=\"slk:Reform UK;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/reform-uk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Reform UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Spectators cheered as floats full of people dancing and speakers pumping out music drove through central London, with many donning rainbow colours and carrying Pride flags and fans on a hot and sunny day in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Gay rights activist Julian Hows said from the parade how LGBTQ+ rights are being &#8220;taken away, whether it&#8217;s in this country with Reform, whether it&#8217;s in this country with rights being taken away from trans people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow activist <a data-ylk=\"slk:Peter Tatchell;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/peter-tatchell\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Tatchell<\/a> added: &#8220;This year&#8217;s Pride is as important as ever. Particularly now that Reform councils across the country are banning Pride flags \u2026 wanting to remove books from shelves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is very dangerous, very threatening to all of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sat, July 4, 2026 at 6:20 PM UTC Watch: London Pride campaigners express fears over Reform UK Thousands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1068521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,274072,16,15],"class_list":["post-1068520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-pride-flags","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116863222466685320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1068521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}