Officers had separated a group, which gathered around the Royal Oak pub on County Road, from some counter-protesters holding placards with slogans including “hands off our neighbours” and “stop the far right”. <\/p>\n
Under police escort, the protesters headed towards the flyover leading to Queens Drive before being diverted through a church yard into residential streets around Goodison Park stadium. <\/p>\n
The majority then returned to County Road where they eventually dispersed.<\/p>\n
The march had attracted criticism from councillors for taking place in an area which suffered severe damage during the 2024 riots. <\/p>\n
In an open letter, Labour council leader Liam Robinson said: “Many local people have been in touch with me to say they do not want this march to take place.<\/p>\n
“It is a painful reminder of one of the darkest moments in that area’s history.<\/p>\n
“I share their view, but local authorities do not have the power to prevent such marches from taking place.”<\/p>\n
Only the Home Office could take the decision to stop a protest, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers had separated a group, which gathered around the Royal Oak pub on County Road, from some counter-protesters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-637266","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\/637266","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=637266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}