Just Stop Oil supporter arrested after Express uncovers Remembrance Day plot

A Just Stop Oil supporter has been arrested after a Daily Express investigation found that an allied pro-Palestine group was planning to cause chaos on Remembrance Day.

The group claimed on social media that the Met Police had arrested someone at their home after the Daily Express reporter infiltrated one of the group’s meetings.

The secret meeting saw the activist group join Just Stop Oil at a members-only central London bar for an exclusive event.

The event in West Dock called the ‘Politics is Broken: People’s Assembly & After Party’, saw upwards of 50 activists gather to listen to speeches and discuss policy while vegan food and alcohol were served.

Speakers at the event boasted of how the group was planning to wreak havoc on Monday, November 11 – a time when thousands across Britain will honour those who gave their lives for our country.

Youth Demand activist Arthur Clifton told the crowd: “This is the start of our strategy coming into place on November 11. With five cities across the country, Youth Demand will be getting out onto the roads, swarming, causing disruption [and] getting off before arrests are made, hopefully.”

Clifton, 23, who attended the prestigious £8,600-a-term Latymer Upper School, added that the protests would mean “highly coordinated, highly organised disruption on a nationwide level”.

He also hinted at further chaos around Black Friday, a significant discount day for British retailers and consumers, held on the last Friday in November.

Held this year on November 29, Clifton, who is believed to be from London, said the group had “exciting plans”, adding: “That’s all I’m saying.”

A call to action on Youth Demand’s Telegram channel posted on November 5 told activists that “in just over a week, our nationally coordinated actions will be popping off all over the country”.

And in an apparent threat to Remembrance ceremonies in the five cities being targeted, the rallying cry finishes: “We know we have to shut it down for Palestine.”

During his speech, Clifton refused to say which cities were under threat, and this information was not revealed in the post on Telegram.

The meeting was set up by Umbrella, the overarching organisation which comprises Just Stop Oil, Youth Demand and other direct action groups, and ran from 4.30pm to 10pm in Dockside Vaults, an underground bar in the shadow of the Tower of London.

The Metropolitan police confirmed that a man was arrested on Saturday evening.

A spokesperson told Express.co.uk: “Following information received, a man was arrested on the evening of November 9 at an address in London on suspicion of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance. He has been taken into police custody.”