Arrests as Tommy Robinson supporters invade Stand Up to Racism counter-protest

Six people have been arrested after thousands of Tommy Robinson supporters marched in central London yesterday, with some caught entering a counter-demo area, said the Met Police.

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Hundreds of police officers were deployed in response to the protest, organised under the name “Stop the Isolation” or “Unite the Kingdom” in support of Robinson, as well as a separate counter-demonstration.

Chants of “We want our country back” and “We want Tommy out” were sung as the demonstration set off from outside Waterloo station before marching towards Westminster and assembling at the Parliament Square end of Whitehall.

The counter-protest organised by Stand Up To Racism also marched to Whitehall to stand “together against racism, Islamophobia and antisemitism and to say that we won’t let the far right divide us”.