Clashes erupted in London on Saturday as far right hooligans hurled metal crowd barriers at police outside the Houses of Parliament during pro- and anti-Brexit protests.
Police were attacked with the barriers and other objects and defended themselves with batons.
The violence came from a mix of far-right and football hooligan groups, the central group going under the name of the Democratic Football Lads Alliance (DFLA).
The clashes spread after some hooligans ran along Whitheall towards the anti-Brexit protest organised by left-wing group Another Europe Is Possible.
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Police used batons to regain control of the situation and detain some of the protesters.
"I haven't been to a demonstration for a very long time but I'm beginning to feel that really bad things happen when good people don't do anything," said Launa Bachelor, pro-Brexit protester:
"We should have a general election. Obviously we can purge all the traitors and then we should just... if it has to be a World Trade Organization with no deal, so be it. I mean if we could get a deal, that probably would be better. But you know if not, that's fine. That's what should happen now."
Meanwhile, high-ranking Conservative MP Amber Rudd has quit cabinet, saying she can't "stand by" while "loyal moderate Conservatives are expelled".
"I joined your cabinet in good faith: accepting that 'No Deal' had to be on the table, because it was the means by which we would have the best chance of achieving a new deal to leave on 31 October," she wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
"However I no longer believe leaving with a deal is the government's main objective."
Johnson has said the UK will leave on October 31, deal or no deal, despite parliament passing a law making that illegal. Johnson expelled 21 members of his own party after they voted in favour of the motion.
Rudd voted in favour of the UK remaining in the EU.
"Why did Boris give ministerial posts to all these Remainers in the first place?" Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage tweeted. "Confused thinking to say the least."
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