Jacqueline McKenzie, a campaigner and human rights lawyer who helped victims of the Windrush scandal, said the carnival holds ‘huge national and international significance’. ‘The Government needs to recognise this and act urgently to protect it,’ Ms McKenzie said.

The official Notting Hill Carnival map covers a three-mile parade route through West London. The procession begins at Westbourne Park station, continues along Great Western Road, heads down Ladbroke Grove, loops onto Westbourne Grove, and finishes on Elkstone Road.

The Metropolitan Police is bracing for a deadly crowd crush at the Notting Hill Carnival. The annual celebration of Caribbean culture is expected to attract around two million people over the bank holiday weekend.