{"id":585168,"date":"2026-05-15T08:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585168\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T08:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T08:41:10","slug":"london-protests-what-you-need-to-know-about-saturdays-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/585168\/","title":{"rendered":"London protests: What you need to know about Saturday&#8217;s events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Unite the Kingdom march is the second rally of its kind organised by the anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson, who says it is a demonstration for &#8220;national unity, free speech and Christian values&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It will start on Kingsway and proceed to Aldwych, Strand, Trafalgar Square, Whitehall, ending in Parliament Square. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The speeches and music are to conclude by 17:30, and the assembly must end by 18:00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There will be two parallel corridors running east-west through central London for most of the afternoon, with Trafalgar Square, Whitehall and Parliament Square sitting between them and the two end-points where speeches are planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Met Police has been explicit about keeping the two crowds apart, so hard cordons and rolling closures around Pall Mall, Haymarket, lower Regent Street, Trafalgar Square approaches and the bridges feeding Whitehall are to be expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Unite the Kingdom march is the second rally of its kind organised by the anti-Islam activist Tommy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-585168","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\/585168","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=585168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}