{"id":420476,"date":"2025-09-13T07:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/420476\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T07:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T07:06:12","slug":"tommy-robinson-protest-live-police-draft-500-extra-officers-as-london-braces-for-violence-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/420476\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Robinson protest LIVE: Police draft 500 extra officers as London braces for violence | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Robinson, fresh from prison in May 2025, announced the Unite the Kingdom rally as a \u201cfree speech festival\u201d to be held today at 11am, starting at Stamford Street, Southwark, and marching to Whitehall, expecting thousands to join.<\/p>\n<p>The event, sparked by Mr Robinson\u2019s release and his call to \u201cunite patriots\u201d against perceived censorship, gained traction online, with claims of international support and $20,000 raised via cryptocurrency for logistics.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police, deploying 1,600 officers, will enforce barriers to separate the groups amid fears of clashes.<\/p>\n<p>Police fear the rally risks escalating tensions in a polarised capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy Robinson, fresh from prison in May 2025, announced the Unite the Kingdom rally as a \u201cfree speech&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,78524,393,4884,257,143846,2579,113415,59423,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-420476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-charlie-kirk","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-london-protests","14":"tag-protests","15":"tag-stand-up-to-racism","16":"tag-tommy-robinson","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}