PEOPLE protesting against Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit-inspired bid to suspend parliament made their way to Jeremy Hunt’s Hindhead office and called for the South West Surrey MP to “stop the coup or resign immediately”.

One of those protesting on August 29 was Sean Ellis, who posted a picture of the group of four protestors on Twitter.

The accompanying tweet read: “Here with some new friends at Jeremy Hunt’s office. No sign of our MP though!

“Perhaps he’s getting into practice for doing nothing when parliament is suspended.”

And it wasn’t just the group in Hindhead demonstrating, as tens of thousands of protestors took to the streets across Britain.

In response to the protest, Mr Hunt said: “I fully respect the right of people to protest – and indeed stood up for the right for people all over the world when I was foreign secretary.

“But as someone who voted in parliament to allow a referendum on EU membership, and also to respect the result, my duty is now to deliver that result and parliament is already showing it has plenty of opportunities to make its voice heard.”

The protests came two months after Mr Hunt clashed with Mr Johnson over the idea of suspending parliament during an ITV Tory leadership debate in July, where he challenged Mr Johnson to rule it out.

Mr Hunt said at the time: “When that has happened in the past, when parliament has been shut down against its will, we actually had a civil war. I think it would be a rather curious thing to do, if this is about taking back control for parliament, to actually shut it down.”