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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-21T14:52:37.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nThree people have been arrested during an anti-migration protest in Manchester city centre after demonstrators were met by counter-protesters.\n\nOfficers arrested the trio on charges including breaching the dispersal order, assaulting an emergency worker, and breach of peace.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nBritain First assembled with supporters outside Manchester Piccadilly station before taking part in a demonstration calling for \"remigration and mass deportations\".\n\nCounter-protesters from Resist Britain First and Stand Up to Racism Manchester met after 11am in the city centre.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nFormer Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed the counter-protesters at a rally held in Piccadilly Gardens.\n\nManchester council leader Bev Craig also spoke out against protesters present in the city on Thursday.\n\nShe stated that Britain First was not welcome and called on residents to unite and \"send a clear message that hate has no place in our city\".\n\nAhead of the gatherings, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) issued a 10-hour dispersal order in the city centre, which will remain in place until 8pm.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThis move, aimed at preventing \"anti-social behaviour, crime, harassment, alarm or distress\", gives officers extra powers to remove people from the area during the march and rallies.\n\nHundreds of protestors carrying Union Flags and St George’s Crosses aloft could be seen making up the bulk of the Britain First presence.\n\nA large banner bearing the text \"remigration\" and a Britain First logo was held at the front of the march.\n\nTheir procession was delayed by approximately an hour, with officers holding back participants before the group eventually departed just after 1pm.\n\n### LATEST DEVELOPMENTS\n\n\n\n\n  * Inside Britain's military recruitment crisis as servicemen REJECTED for acne and lactose intolerance\n  * UK 'looks unreliable and weak' under Keir Starmer, warn senior defence figures in grim assessment\n  * Charles Bronson calls prison 'total joke' as notorious criminal vows to 'expose unlawful sentence'\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nConfrontations erupted with the police at the rally throughout the afternoon.\n\nShortly before 1pm, GMP said three people have been arrested amid the Britain First rally and counter-protest.\n\nThe arrests were for a breach of the dispersal order, assault on an emergency worker and breach of peace. People attending the protests were also spotted clashing with police.\n\nCommuters in central Manchester were warned that the scenes would lead to extensive delays.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n“Due to disruption in the city centre, many bus services are currently experiencing severe delays or operating on a diverted route,” Bee Network wrote on X.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards:The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "Three arrested at anti-migration protest as counter-protesters attend Manchester demonstration"
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