A United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip) demonstration will now take place in central London after police banned protesters from gathering in an area of the capital with a large Muslim population because of what officers called a “realistic prospect of serious disorder”.
Supporters of the group had been due to meet for a march from Whitechapel tube station in east London on Saturday afternoon, but on Tuesday the Metropolitan Police imposed Public Order Act conditions preventing Ukip from holding its protest in the area, or anywhere else in the borough of Tower Hamlets.
