Anti-immigration protesters and counter-protesters clash in Glasgow

Event comes a week after the largest far-right event in decades took place in London

Anti-immigration protesters have clashed with anti-racist counter-protesters in tense scenes in Glasgow this afternoon, a week after the largest far-right event in decades, organised by the activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson, took place in London.

The statue of Scottish statesman Donald Dewar, father of the Holyrood parliament, which stands at the top of Buchanan Street, one of the city’s main shopping streets, was surrounded by union flags bearing the words: ‘Stop the boats’, and ‘Unite the kingdom’.