{"id":538027,"date":"2026-04-18T16:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538027\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:15:08","slug":"hundreds-at-britain-first-demo-and-counter-demo-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/538027\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds at Britain First demo and counter demo in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds of people have gathered for a Britain First march through Manchester city centre, with counter protests also being held and disruption to tram services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greater Manchester Police arrested at least three people and said hundreds of officers were &#8220;across the city to safely facilitate&#8221; the demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They said it was a &#8220;significantly increased police presence&#8221; following similar protests in February, when nine men were arrested after altercations between groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tram services were temporarily disrupted as Britain First protesters marched from Manchester Piccadilly railway station and counter-protesters gathered in Piccadilly Gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of people have gathered for a Britain First march through Manchester city centre, with counter protests also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-538027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}