Police have clashed with violent protesters in Whitehall on St George’s Day after far-right groups descended on the capital.

Mounted officers intervened as a group holding an English flag forced its way through police blockades near the event’s allocated area. The Metropolitan Police had said its officers expected those attending to belong to “far-right groups” and “groups linked to football clubs”.

Crowds blocked the road, and chants of “England till I die” could be heard in footage from the scene. Earlier Tommy Robinson, the former leader of the English Defence League whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was cleared of failing to comply with a dispersal order excluding him from a march against antisemitism.

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