{"id":421032,"date":"2025-09-13T12:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/421032\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T12:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:04:14","slug":"unite-the-kingdom-thousands-gather-in-london-for-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/421032\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Unite the Kingdom&#8217;: Thousands gather in London for protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met said it had borrowed 500 officers from other forces for the day, with police vans from Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Devon and Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There were a mix of slogans on the flags including &#8216;Stop the Boats&#8217;, &#8216;Send them Home&#8217; and &#8216;Unite the Kingdom,&#8217; and anti-transgender activists are among the crowds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One man carried a large wooden cross with &#8216;RIP Charlie Kirk&#8217; written on it &#8211; the right-wing US activist shot dead on Wednesday while speaking at a university.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rally is set to include speeches from US President Donald Trump&#8217;s former strategist Steve Bannon and presenter Katie Hopkins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, around 500 people gathered near Russell Square for the &#8216;March Against Fascism&#8217; counter protest organised by Stand up to Racism (SUTR).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Demonstrators held placards reading &#8216;Women Against the Far Right,&#8217; &#8216;Oppose Tommy Robinson,&#8217; and &#8216;Refugees Welcome&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Met said it had borrowed 500 officers from other forces for the day, with police vans from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-421032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115196897993819610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421032","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=421032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}