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Organisers of the Together Against Trump movement had hoped for the "biggest demonstration in British history", but numbers fell well short of the 250,000 who took to the streets in June 2018. The final number could have been as low as 10,000, according to a police source in Parliament Square.

Those that did attend left behind piles of discarded placards in the streets, adding a clean-up bill to the costs of 3,000 police officers who attended the event. The total security costs of policing protests against the US President's visit could top £25million, according to reports. The protest saw some ugly scenes.

Jeremy Corbyn rants to an anti-Trump crowd

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at the rally

One President Trump supporter had a milkshake thrown over him and was branded "Nazi scum" before being pushed and shoved by anti-Trump supporters. Mr Corbyn only described the American entourage as "visitors" and preached his own world vision, talking about the future of the NHS, climate change and the refugee crisis. He was also labelled a hypocrite for avoiding Mr Trump by not attending a state banquet on Monday night after requesting a meeting with the President that was rejected. The Labour leader has previously attended meetings with Hamas and Hezbollah by insisting of the need for dialogue and had no problem attending a state banquet in honour of China's communist leader Xi Jinping. Police had been drafted in from across the country for the event, with another source saying they had started their shift at 5am and that the rest of London had been left thin on the ground during the demonstrations.

A man hit by a moron with a milkshake throws it back as police stand by

A ring of steel met protesters in Parliament Square, as police on horseback stood in front of metal barricades. Behind that was another line of officers, who were spread all the way down to the George Duke of Cambridge Statue in Whitehall. A 20ft Trump blimp was lifted into the air over Parliament yesterday before protesters gathered in Trafalgar Square to march towards Whitehall for a series of speeches from left-wing politicians, campaigners and trade union representatives. Many protesters carried placards and banners branded with obscenities and some of the speakers addressing the crowds called the US President a "racist", a "sexist" and a "war-monger". Demonstrators were barred from marching down Whitehall afterwards and were instead told to reach Parliament by walking along the Embankment.

A crowd gathers to protest the leader of the free world

A small group gathered opposite Downing Street to heckle Mr Trump and his entourage as they left Number 10. Mr Corbyn told thousands of protesters the demonstration was a "mosaic" of different communities fighting for change. He said: "I am not, absolutely not, refusing to meet anybody. I want to be able to have that dialogue, to bring about the better and more peaceful world we all want to live in. "I'm proud our city has a Muslim mayor, that we can chase down Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, any of racism because racism divides. "We have to work together to bring about that different world."

Jeremy Corbyn addresses the crowd

Corbyn, during a thinly veiled election speech which often repeated criticisms directed towards Mr Trump, said Britain's future relationship with the EU and the rest of the world should protect jobs, workers' rights and public services. He added: "It should not be a debate about how we go forward with no deal at the same time as offering up our precious, wonderful NHS to private American companies to come in and take it over. "We will not stand for that. We will fight with every last breath in our body to defend the principle of a healthcare system free at the point of need for everybody." The Labour leader also warned of the "consequences" of going to war and said conflicts in Iraq and Syria had fuelled the refugee crisis. "I say to our visitors who have arrived this week, think about a world that is one of peace and disarmament," he said. "One that recognises the value of all people, one that defeats racism, defeats misogyny, defeats hatreds that are being fuelled by the far-right in Britain, in Europe and in the United States.