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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Bill Bowkett

Businessman who was on stage at Tower Hamlets Muslim demonstration calls for peace after Nigel Farage calls protesters 'foreign invading army'

A businessman who appeared alongside masked Muslim men in an east London protest has called for peace after Nigel Farage likened the demonstrators to a “foreign invading army”.

Syed, who runs the Trendz sweet shop chain in Tower Hamlets, said he refuses to get in “trouble with anyone” after the Metropolitan Police banned a planned United Kingdom Independence Party protest in the borough — which has the highest proportion of Muslim residents in England and Wales.

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