Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said that ‘Unite the Kingdom’ protesters who attacked police will face the ‘full force of the law’.
00:00 LBC’s Shivani Sharma recaps the events of Saturday’s march.
03:35 Lord Walney, the government’s former adviser on political violence, gives his take.
08:23 Former Met commander Roy Ramm gives a policing perspective.
Up to 150,000 people were estimated by police to have gathered in Whitehall for the event, which faced counter-protests by around 5,000 anti-racism campaigners.
Objects including a traffic cone, bottles and pieces of wood were thrown at the line of officers as they started to push the group back towards Trafalgar Square and Northumberland Avenue at around 5.25pm.
A stage was set up to hear a series of speeches from far-right personalities and politicians and included an interview between Robinson and tech billionaire Elon Musk, who accorded with the overriding theme of the day by proclaiming the “destruction of Britain” because of “massive uncontrolled migration”.
Musk called for a change of Government in the UK and railed against the “woke mind virus” as he joined via video link.
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