Extra 4,000 officers in London as police brace for far-right and pro-Palestine marches – live

Police monitoring both Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom' march and also the annual Nakba day' pro-Palestine march

Sir Mark Rowley, commissioner of the Metropolitan police, used a separate article in The Muslim News, a UK-based outlet, to insist that both protests are being policed on exactly the same basis, under the same legal framework, with similar conditions and timings and the same expectations.

Pointing out that specific conditions relating to speakers at both protests had been introduced for the first time, he said: These place a responsibility on organisers to ensure that those they invite do not use these events as a platform for unlawful extremism or hate speech. Where this happens, both the speaker and the organisers will face consequences."