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		</div><p>Anti-Brexit MP Anna Soubry has said she was too frightened to speak at a rally outside the British Parliament, during angry protests in central London.</p>
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<p>Police on horseback intervened as two groups of pro and anti-Brexit supporters gathered on Parliament Square in Westminster on Saturday.</p>
<p>About 200 people joined a pro-Brexit demonstration organised by the Democratic Football Lads Alliance (DFLA) while anti-Brexit group March for Change held their own protest.</p>
<p>As March for Change began to set up their rally, some members of the DFLA approached and began shouting.</p>
<p>A beer can was thrown towards about 10 people from the March for Change protest, before police intervened.</p>
<p>March for Change organisers said they had cancelled plans to float a Boris Johnson-shaped “blimp” due to the likelihood it would become a target.</p>
<p>Ms Soubry, leader of the Independent Group for Change, told organisers she was too frightened to speak due to intimidation from the counter-protests held by the DFLA.</p>
<p>Speaking to the PA news agency she said: “I don’t know what I’m going to do.</p>
<figure id="attachment_139570" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-139570" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-139570" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/5EC3229B-116A-4F78-A83F-1A35432BB849.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="399" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-139570" class="wp-caption-text">Brexit protesters outside the Houses of Parliament.</figcaption></figure>
<p>“It’s awful but there’s also a side of me that thinks that this is our country.</p>
<p>“I’m a parliamentarian and I have a right to speak and I shouldn’t be frightened but it’s very, very, very disturbing, and I’m very frightened actually.”</p>
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<p>After consulting with the police and protest organisers, Ms Soubry left the rally, telling officers she did not want to cause additional issues for them as they monitored both events.</p>
<p>Tom Brufatto, a director of the March for Change, said protesters were there to “demonstrate peacefully and defend our democracy”.</p>
<p>He added: “We have been attacked three times. We respect people’s right to protest but we do not respect people’s rights to intimidate and be aggressive.”</p>
<figure id="attachment_139571" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-139571" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-139571" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/B64BA660-C723-4BAC-A9E1-453BA51B96DE.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="399" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-139571" class="wp-caption-text">Pro-Brexit protesters outside the Houses of Parliament</figcaption></figure>
<p>Hundreds of people also gathered outside nearby Downing Street on Saturday, to demand Boris Johnson’s resignation.</p>
<p>Organised by groups including Another Europe is Possible, Momentum and the Green Party, the Demand Democracy: Johnson Out protesters said the Prime Minister was “attacking democracy”.</p>
<p>Speakers at the event included Labour MP Diane Abbott and Green Party co-leader Sian Berry, while protesters carried signs bearing messages such as Stop the Coup and Migrants welcome.</p>
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<p>A human barricade of police was formed after a small group of pro-Brexit protesters started attacking police officers.</p>
<p>The march was eventually allowed to start, surrounded by a heavy police presence, occasionally pausing in a tense stand-off with counter-protesters.</p>
<figure id="attachment_139572" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-139572" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-139572" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/DA647473-33D5-4D4B-A60F-E5A04408C5EA.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="447" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-139572" class="wp-caption-text">Anti-Brexit protesters at the demonstration</figcaption></figure>
<p>Marchers chanted “fascist scum off our streets” and “refugees welcome”.</p>
<p>Ms Berry also addressed the rally in Parliament Square and praised the work of opposition MPs for proposing and passing a Bill to prevent a no-deal Brexit prior to the suspension of Parliament.</p>
<p>Addressing the pro-Brexit protesters on the other side of the square, she said: “That’s why they’re here today, they know they’re losing.”</p>
<p>During speeches, the crowd of several hundred people started cheers of “bollocks to Brexit” and “bollocks to Boris”.</p>
<p>Rows of police, including officers on horseback, stood between the two groups of pro and anti-Brexit protesters.</p>
<figure id="attachment_139573" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-139573" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-139573" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/9F13790C-4E33-4CC8-9DCA-325629D1EA97.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="399" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-139573" class="wp-caption-text">Anti-Brexit protesters sit with a sign on Whitehall</figcaption></figure>
<p>Some members of the protest organised by the DFLA were seen throwing eggs at people filming them.</p>
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<p>Labour and Co-operative MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle called Brexit “evil” in a passionate speech delivered at the rally.</p>
<p>He said: “Every day that passes that we remain in the European Union is a victory to our movement.</p>
<p>“While some call us traitors, we are not the ones trying to break up this country and turn it into an English, white nationalist country, they are.</p>
<p>“We are not the ones destroying the rights of migrants, they are. Just like all things, good will triumph over evil and Brexit is evil.”</p>
<p>The MP also accused Leave-supporting politicians, including Jacob Rees-Mogg, of aspiring to turn the UK into a “nasty feudalistic country”.</p>
<p>Speaking about the possibility Parliament will be suspended next week, he added: “We MPs will continue to sit in Parliament and we ask you to set up a community People’s Parliament across the country.”</p>
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