The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxAnti-lockdown protesters contributed to a huge £2million taxpayers' bill by cramming together without masks and protesting in the middle of a deadly global pandemic, Daily Star can reveal.The Met Police shelled out the eye-watering sum to keep up with demonstrations against government rules.In often chaotic scenes, brave bobbies clashed with protest groups at mass demonstrations across the capital.The Daily Star can now reveal that these demonstrations helped towards racking up a mammoth £1,994,444 bill for taxpayers funding police operations.Scotland Yard coughed up £1.3 million to deal with a four-day operation across the August Bank.