TOMMY Robinson has claimed he will return to the UK to hold a far-right demonstration after spending over a month outside the country.
The far-right figure has been hiding out internationally since July after being charged with contempt of court in England.
The National previously reported that he was staying at a five-star luxury resort in Cyprus while stoking the riots that struck England and Northern Ireland last month.
But on Sunday night, he claimed to his followers on Twitter/X that he would be returning to the UK to host a protest outside 10 Downing Street on October 26.
Robinson said that he was "coming home" and that the planned demonstration would be "fight or flight" for his supporters.
Speaking in a social media video posted on Monday, Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, told his supporters that there would be a "spectacle" at the demonstration, which he said would be "peaceful".
He continued on to say that the demonstration was intended to "send a message" to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and that he would screen a film he created for the audience there.
Yaxley-Lennon left the UK via the Channel Tunnel on July 28 after dodging a hearing for contempt of court charges raised against him after repeating defamatory statements about a Syrian teenager.
A video went viral on social media in 2018 of Jamal Hijazi being attacked in a Huddersfield school playground.
In videos published to Facebook, Yaxley-Lennon said Hijazi was attacking "young English girls", which the High Court found to be false.
He was ordered by a judge to pay Hijazi £100,000 in damages, as well as legal costs, and ordered not to repeat the libellous statements.
However, in videos posted in 2023, he began repeating the claims again, including in a film distributed online.
The judge in Yaxley-Lennon's case delayed the enforcement of his warrant to sometime in early October, in order to allow him to come back to the UK of his own volition.
It is unclear if he intends to willingly attend court to face the contempt charges.
His departure from the UK came shortly after an arrest by Kent police under counter-terrorism powers on the same day, from which he was bailed out.
A demonstration in Glasgow on Saturday that Yaxley-Lennon advertised saw low turnout, with an estimated 200 far-right demonstrators facing off against around 2500 counter-protesters.
