, to newsagents across the UK as police struggled to clear the roads on Saturday morning. At least 80 people were arrested.
Home secretary Priti Patel described it as “an attack on our free press, society and democracy” and Boris Johnson said it was “completely unacceptable to seek to limit the public’s access to news in this way".
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