More than 4,000 police officers will be deployed in London as police aim to prevent a repeat of last year’s event when the Conservative Party headquarters in Millbank was attacked by protesters. Those scenes unfolded after the Metropolitan Police assigned just 225 officers to police a protest of thousands. The force was heavily criticised when officers were powerless to stop scenes of carnage. Scotland Yard will have twenty times the number of officers on duty as up to 10,000 protesters are expected to descend on London to voice anger over cuts to the education budget.