Labour backbenchers and trade union leaders have given Keir Starmer until the local elections in May to turn around his premiership, says the FT. The prime minister is still under pressure over how much he knew about Peter Mandelson’s links with Jeffrey Epstein when he appointed him Britain’s ambassador to the US, and No 10 is increasingly concerned about a potential leadership challenge by the Greater Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham. Starmer has said Britain will “never surrender” the flag to those using it as a symbol of violence, fear and division, after as many as 150,000 people joined a far-right protest in London on Saturday. At least 26 police officers were injured at the “Unite the Kingdom” rally, which was organised by right-wing activist Tommy Robinson. Owen Cooper became the youngest-ever male winner at last night’s Emmy Awards, scooping the best supporting actor gong for his role in the Netflix series Adolescence. The four-part show took home eight awards, including best actor for Stephen Graham and best supporting actress for Erin Doherty.

We ignore these angry protests at our peril

Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom march on Saturday was initially like a “nationalist street party”, says George Monaghan in The New Statesman. The sun was out. Joints were passed around. Attendees found innovative ways to make songs like Seven Nation Army and We Are the Champions fit to the words “Keir Starmer’s a wanker”. “Look dad!” one boy called out excitedly. “They’ve got a balloon dick with Starmer’s face stuck on!” Eventually, perhaps inevitably, the right-wing march descended into violence. Beer cans were thrown at counter-protesters. A bottle smashed against a police horse’s face. Men climbed scaffolding, asking if anyone had “any fucking packet”, meaning cocaine. “Fucking Jews!” shouted one chap near me during a surge at the police. “Heil fucking Hitler!”

There was obviously “some hooliganism at the margins”, says Trevor Phillips in The Times. Elon Musk, beamed in by satellite, called for the overthrow of the government. But most of the attendees weren’t angry rabble-rousers or even political activists. They were ordinary folk: the guys “you meet in a country pub with their dogs, or in a queue for drinks at half-time”. And the fact that 150,000 or so of these people were willing to brave the first cold weekend of the autumn – “at the behest of a serial convict and self-confessed fraudster” – suggests that “something is very rotten in the state of Britain”. What has happened is that the angry protests outside asylum hotels are “metastasising” into a simpler message: stop immigration, defend free speech, revive Christianity. For a country that feels increasingly angry and unmoored, that’s a “compelling trinity”. And it’s a movement our mainstream politicians ignore at their peril.