Leaders of the demonstration claimed entire fleets of coaches were driving to the capital as the Met Police doubled the number of officers and set up an exclusion zone around the Cenotaph.
Fights broke out as Tommy Robinson and hundreds of his supporters arrived in Whitehall on Saturday as police officers maintain a ring of steel around the Cenotaph.
Thousands of people set off marching from Hyde Park in London today as part of a huge demonstration in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they called for an immediate ceasefire.
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