Protesters linked arms and blocked people attending a debate on Islam headlined by far-Right activist Tommy Robinson at the Oxford Union tonight – causing the event to be delayed by more than an hour.
Several hundred campaigners, some of whom were from the far-Left group Antifa and were seen wearing masks and keffiyehs, arrived in their droves outside the venue holding up banners calling to ‘Stop the Far Right’ and shouting, ‘Oxford Union, shame, shame’.
They also chanted ‘refugees are welcome here’ and ‘racist scum off our streets’ ahead of the much-anticipated event.
Meanwhile a ‘human blockade’ outside the venue prevented at least
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