Slow Marching to Oblivion?

It was interesting to hear the UK's Home Secretary explain, why she felt compelled (inspite of many objections), to increase police powers to control demonstrators. She claimed that people had the right to get to work without being impeded. She maintained that 'Just Stop Oil' had had a number of 'slow walking' demonstrations in London. This necessitated, she claimed diverting police (who, otherwise, could be catching real criminals) to remove this impediment. The Home Secretary said that paying for police time had real costs for the tax payer. It's remarkable that she didn't note that the coronation of King Charles 111, a few weeks earlier, had involved enormous numbers of police being diverted (at enormous cost) from all around the UK. Many of the officers had had to be provided with Central London hotel accommodation. There was also a lot of 'slow walking' in the ceremonies. I suppose that, in this case, cost is no problem. The coronation day was a public 'holiday', with no work.