A vigil took place on Sunday that saw people stand in the rain to listen to speakers including the archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran, Labour MP Stella Creasy and Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood all call for an end to Islamophobia and antisemitism in the UK.

The event, Building Bridges, Together For Humanity was billed as “the first mass event of its kind” since the Hamas attack in Israel on 7 October, was planned with a view to mourning deaths on all sides of the terrible conflict still unfolding between Israel and Palestine, and for people to show they stand against antisemitism and Islamophobia.

The archbishop said from the stage: “As we are here, tomorrow there will be children thinking about going to school in the UK who dread going because they will be spat at, shouted at and hated because they are Muslim or Jewish. They will have to go without their uniforms because they identify them too clearly – and that [is happening] in our streets.

Thousands take part in vigil against Islamophobia and antisemitism