Robinson-led marchers outnumbered by opponents

● Labour group says 15,000 turned out to protest the EDL and Ukip figure’s rally

A “Brexit betrayal” march led by Tommy Robinson was “vastly” outnumbered by counter-demonstrators, opposition organisers said.

The English Defence League (EDL) founder turned Ukip adviser marched with supporters through the streets of London yesterday before addressing a rally beside Parliament Square.

Amid fears of violence, Scotland Yard placed restrictions on the march as well as on a counter-demonstration organised by Labour supporters and anti-fascist groups.

Labour grassroots group Momentum said about 15,000 people turned up to oppose Mr Robinson’s march, claiming opponents “vastly” outnumbered the Ukip-led demonstrators nearly five to one.

A Ukip spokesman said “quite a few thousand” had turned up to its rally, which came ahead of MPS voting on a Brexit deal tomorrow.

Police did not provide estimates on crowd sizes.

Momentum national coordinator Laura Parker said: “Today is a huge blow for Tommy Robinson and his vile, hate-fuelled politics.

“Even with the Ukip machine in tow he only managed to

0 The pro-brexit marchers waved Union flags, but were outnumbered by a counter-protest

bring a few thousand supporters out on the streets, while we mobilised nearly 15,000 to march against his racism and bigotry.”

Mr Robinson’s supporters gathered to call for Brexit,

with one brandishing a noose he said was for Prime Minister Theresa May.

Shadow chancellor John Mcdonnell had urged Labour supporters to march against the “poison” of Mr Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-lennon.

Mr Mcdonnell said: “This march isn’t about Brexit, it’s about far-right extremists dressing up in suits and pretending to be respectable.”

Among those marching with Ukip were those carrying Generation Identity flags, which anti-fascist campaign group Hope Not Hate describes as a far-right and “strongly antimuslim” organisation.

A man was also seen carrying a “Jo Cox false flag” sign, peddling a conspiracy theory that the Labour MP’S murder in 2016 by a right-wing extremist was a politically-motivated deception.

Ukipsupportersstartedtheir procession at the Dorchester Hotel and followed a specified

route to the Houses of Parliament.

Outside the luxury hotel stood the man carrying a gallows with a noose hanging down. He gave his name as Laukan Creasey, from Stevenage, Hertfordshire.

Asked why he was brandishing it, he said: “That’s what the traitor May deserves. That’s what treasonous people get.

“It was a referendum not a never-endum. And they promised to implement whatever we decided and they haven’t, so two and a half years down the line this is what you get.”

At the march’s conclusion, the crowd loudly booed when Ukip leader Gerard Batten brought up “Remainer” Mrs May and they cheered on his reference to a “treasonous political class”.

The opposition march started in Portland Place, with people holding placards reading “Don’t let the racists divide us”, and chanting: “There are many more of us than you.”