Overview
- Metropolitan Police, which mounted a large operation on Saturday, kept far-right and pro-Palestine marches physically separate in central London.
- No major violence was reported, with arrests ranging from 11 to 43 in differing tallies from police updates and later reports.
- Crowd counts diverged: police put the Tommy Robinson–led march near 60,000, while pro-Palestine organizers claimed about 250,000 and authorities estimated roughly 20,000.
- The operation used about 4,000 officers with drones, horses and facial-recognition cameras, and police restricted chants such as “intifada” while border officials barred 11 foreign far-right activists.
- Robinson urged supporters to “get involved” in what he called the “Battle of the United Kingdom,” as reporting linked the turnout to Labour’s recent turmoil and momentum for Reform UK.