Hundreds of protesters gathered in Glasgow's city centre to oppose US President Donald Trump's state visit to the UK.

Campaigners gathered at the Donald Dewar statue on Buchanan Street around 5pm.

Speakers included representatives from Unite the Union, Extinction Rebellion and Stop the War Coalition.

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John Jamieson, of the Public and Commercial Services Union, addressed the crowd stating: "Donald Trump is not welcome here, nor his friends Nigel Farage and his favoured Prime Minister candidate, Boris Johnson.

"Across America there is a resurgence of the right spreading lies about inequality and poverty in the UK, based on lies about jobs and industry, based on lies about famine, war and international migration.

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"The friends Trump has in the UK represents the worst elements of the so-called mainstream political discussion on Brexit and Britain.

"When Trump and other world leaders say it's not about race, it's always about race."

Crowds, ranging from children to pensioners, held signs and shouted: "Donald Trump off our streets."

Protests against the visit were taking place across the UK.

Jeremy Corbyn launched an attack on far-right politics as he addressed an anti-Donald Trump rally on the second day of the US President’s state visit.

The Labour leader spoke to crowds from a stage in Whitehall as thousands of protesters took to London’s streets on Tuesday.

Mr Trump said he refused a request for a meeting with the Labour leader and dismissed reports of demonstrations as “fake news”

Mr Corbyn, who boycotted a state banquet with the President on Monday evening, said:  “In welcoming visitors from the United States, I hope there can be a conversation.

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“I am not, absolutely not, refusing to meet anybody. I want to be able to have that dialogue to bring about the better and more peaceful world that we all want to live in.

“But I’m very disappointed, particularly today, on the wonderful festival of Eid, that our Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has been attacked as he has.

“I am proud that our city has a Muslim mayor, that we can chase down Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, any form of racism within our society because racism divides.”

During a press conference with Theresa May on Tuesday, Mr Trump hit back at Mr Corbyn and moved to dismiss reports of widespread protests.

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The President said he refused to meet the Labour leader, describing him as a “somewhat negative force”, adding: “I didn’t see the protesters until just a little while ago and it was a very, very small group of people put in for political reasons so it was fake news.”

The Trump Babysitters group estimated tens of thousands of protesters were involved in the demonstrations – fewer than an estimated 250,000 who gathered when Mr Trump visited the UK on July 13 last year.