Far-right protesters battled with police for a second time on Wednesday evening, during a massive gathering outside Downing Street and near the Cenotaph. Chants of "Rule Britannia" and "you're not English any more" were aimed at police as several hundred people gathered on Whitehall following the deadly knife assault and related riots in Southport earlier this week. Hundreds of officers wearing riot gear lined the street around the Cenotaph, tackling the rare protester to the ground as violent clashes erupted.Chants of "Rule Britannia" and "you're not English any more" were aimed at police as several hundred people gathered on Whitehall following the deadly knife assault and related riots in Southport earlier this week. Hundreds of officers kitted in riot gear lined the street around the Cenotaph, tackling the occasional protester to the ground as violent confrontations broke out.

Riot police apprehended several violent demonstrators after the Metropolitan Police established public order conditions for the 'Enough is Enough' event. When one woman was detained, the mob chanted "traitors" and cried out, "How many kids?"Riot police apprehended several violent demonstrators after the Metropolitan Police established public order conditions for the 'Enough is Enough' event. When one woman was detained, the mob chanted "traitors" and cried out, "How many kids?"

The angry mob had gathered at 7pm on Wednesday after news of the demonstration had circulated on social media.

A police helicopter circled overhead as beer bottles and flares were thrown in central London over the course of two hours, with Winston Churchill’s statue and the Downing Street gates targeted.

The Metropolitan Police confirmed that 100 people were arrested at the protest.

Four people were arrested after throwing eggs and bottles at police during a protest in Hartlepool. Social media videos show a mob in a roadway, with one showing a youth hurling objects towards a queue of police officers in riot gear with shields. Jonathan Brash, the town's Labour MP, said he was "deeply concerned" about the situation and planned to meet with police to review their response to the incident.

It comes one day after 53 officers were injured in Southport after a group gathered outside a mosque, with bricks and masonry thrown and a police van set on fire.

Tension has mounted since the deaths of three children at a Taylor Swift themed dance class on Hart Street, after a knifeman entered the premises and launched a brutal attack.

Five other children remain in a critical condition alongside two adults, who were believed to have been ‘bravely’ defending the young victims.

Far-right thugs were accused of using the horrific stabbing at to “whip up hatred” as misinformation about the identity of the suspected knifeman spread like wildfire on social media.

There have been calls for the government to come down hard on those spreading misleading information as the grieving mother of seven-year-old stabbing victim Elsie Dot Stancombe begged for a halt to the violence.

Elsie was killed alongside six-year-old Bebe King and nine-year-old Alice Dasilva Aguiar in Monday morning’s rampage.