View 5 Images

Several hundred people attended a protest and counter protest in Wigan town centre today.

Billed by organisers as a peaceful protest that is ‘nothing to do with the far right’, the main protest came under the banner of the Great British National Protest.

Around 300 people gathered to attend this, including families with young children and elderly couples, many draped in the Union Jack and St George’s cross outside the Moon Under Water Wetherspoons in Wigan Town Centre at 1:30pm.

Join the Manchester Evening News WhatsApp group HERE

Some bore signs and slogans like Protect Our Kids, Keep Wigan Safe and Get Liebour Out - Stop The Woke. There were chants of ‘stop the boats’, ‘send them back’ and 'England 'til I die'. View 5 Images

Several gave speeches from m

See Full Page