Occupy London protesters allowed to stay at St Paul's until the new year

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Source: Guardian

The Corporation of London has told the Occupy London protesters it is happy for them to stay put in the lee of St Paul's cathedral until the new year.

A spokesman for the demonstrators said this now had to be put to the camp's general assembly, but it was not expected to object. Decisions in the camp are made by consensus.

A spokesman for the Corporation refused to confirm or deny this. "What we've said is as far as we're going," he said, referring to the Corporation's tweets about its meeting with Occupy London this afternoon. "If they want to talk about other things we're not going to confirm or deny them." He said going into detail as the protesters had would "make a bit of a mockery" of the negotiation process.

Representatives of the Corporation met protesters on Wednesday afternoon in the Guildhall, the home of the City's local authority, with two lawyers attending for the Corporation's side and Paul Ridge of law firm Bindmans representing Occupy London. In its tweets about the negotiations, the Corporation said it was a "constructive meeting" where the Corporation people "outlined City's responsibilities re highway and planning". The Corporation said its aim was to reduce the camp's size and limit its duration, and said it would make a further announcement on Friday.

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