The masked men arrested by police outside the Britannia Hotel this afternoon were not members of Antifa, an eyewitness at the scene says.

Jack Hadfield, who caught officers making the arrests on camera and shared the footage on X, said: “At least two of the men have since been de-arrested and allowed to join the protest, sans masks.

“To clarify, these were NOT Antifa. After masks were removed, I recognised a few of the men from previous protests here, and [they] were cheered by the protestors when they arrived.”