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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Geraldine McKelvie

Tommy Robinson tells tens of thousands at London rally to prepare for ‘battle of Britain’

Police and crowd marshals form a line in front of protesters holding union jack and Saint George's cross flags
Crowds near Trafalgar Square in London at the ‘unite the kingdom’ march. Photograph: Maja Smiejkowska/PA

The far-right activist Tommy Robinson told tens of thousands of supporters to prepare for the “battle of Britain” during a rally in London on Saturday.

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, drew tens of thousands of supporters on to the streets of central London for the second year running in an event where Islamophobic and ethnonationalist hate speech and flyers were distributed to the crowds.

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