Patrick Stewart joins Mr Broccoli and London Mayor Sadiq Khan at huge anti-Brexit protest in London 

Patrick Stewart joined thousands of anti-Brexit protesters on the streets of London today to coincide with a momentous day in parliament.

The Star Trek actor, 79, was part of the Let Us Be Heard march which headed towards Parliament Square as Boris Johnson hopes to win a vote today to secure a Brexit deal.

He stood alongside actor Stephen McGann and London Mayor Sadiq Khan behind a large pink banner which read ‘together for the final say’.

He stood alongside actor Stephen McGann behind a large pink banner which read ‘together for the final say’

London Mayor Sadiq Khan was one of the first politicians pictured at today’s event. On Friday he wrote: ‘I’ll be joining hundreds of thousands of people in London to make sure our message is heard loud and clear over the jeers and sneers in the House of Commons’

Pixie Geldof shared a snap from the march with her husband George Barnett, brandishing a foam finger which read ‘b******s to Boris’

The Metropolitan Police was braced for the large-scale demonstration and were pictured separating a heated exchange between Remain activists and a pro-Brexit counter-protest. 

Today’s rally was organised by the pro-Remain group as a last-gasp effort to persuade MPs to vote against Mr Johnson’s deal and instead swing behind a fresh Brexit poll.  

On a historic day, the Commons is sitting on a Saturday for the first time since 1982 to debate Mr Johnson’s eleventh-hour Brexit agreement which he struck with the bloc on Thursday.  

Today’s rally was organised by the pro-Remain group as a last-gasp effort to persuade MPs to vote against Mr Johnson’s deal

Anti-Brexit protesters have flooded on to the streets of London for a mammoth demonstration to coincide with Parliament’s crunch vote on Boris Johnson ‘s withdrawal deal

The Metropolitan Police were braced for the large-scale demonstration and were pictured separating a heated exchange between the activists and a pro-Brexit counter-protest

He will be joined by shadow chancellor John McDonnell – a late convert to back a second referendum – who will address the crowds outside Parliament this afternoon.  

As of Saturday morning, more than £500,000 has been donated to support the protest, and cross-party politicians are calling on people to get involved.

More than 170 coaches from around Britain were due to arrive in London today taking people to the march. 

Claiming to be the only way to ‘save the country’, the People’s Vote campaign claims that the ‘only way to break the deadlock in Parliament, legitimise the outcome and allow us all to talk about something else, is to give the people the final say’. 

Politicians, celebrities and even the stalwart eco-warrior known as Mr Broccoli (pictured) are set to join the thousands of Europhiles which are expected to turn out in their thousands

The People’s Vote march clashed with a Brexiteer counter-protest. The Metropolitan Police were braced for the large-scale demonstration and many officers were pictured on the roads of the capital

Claiming to be the only way to ‘save the country’, the People’s Vote campaign claims that the ‘only way to break the deadlock in Parliament, legitimise the outcome and allow us all to talk about something else, is to give the people the final say’. 

Mr Khan wrote in The Independent on Friday: ‘I’ll be joining hundreds of thousands of people in London to make sure our message is heard loud and clear over the jeers and sneers in the House of Commons.’

Liberal Democrat MP Luciana Berger also told voters to ‘let the Prime Minister know what you think’.

People’s Vote organisers are also asking people to sign a letter to Boris Johnson, EU leaders, MPs, and MEPs, asking them to allow ‘the chance to check whether we want to proceed with Brexit’.

Anti-Brexit remain in the European Union supporters take part in a People’s Vote protest march calling for another referendum on Britain’s EU membership

An effigy of a puppet Prime Minister being controlled by his hardline Brexiteer adviser Dominic Cummings was led down Whitehall this morning by activists wearing EU flag berets

In an email to supporters this morning, Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said the letter ‘asks them to honour our shared democratic values, it asks them not to turn away from us now and deny us the chance for a final say.

‘Add your name to the letter now and send a message to the powerful.’

James McGrory, director of the People’s Vote campaign said ahead of the protest that the government should heed the anger of pro-Europeans and hold another referendum on EU membership.

He said: ‘This new deal bears no resemblance to what people were promised and so it is only right that the public deserve another chance to have their say.’

Campaigners are confident that the number of people on the streets will rival a similar demonstration in March, when organisers said one million people took to the streets. A rally this size would be among the largest ever in Britain. 

Who is Mr Broccoli?

Mr Broccoli, the bizarre Animal Rebellion activist who dressed as a vegetable in London and for a television interview with Piers Morgan, has been unmasked as a carpenter from Bristol.

Married Roland Everson, 46, a business owner, is a member of Animal Rebellion – a vegan offshoot of the Extinction Rebellion movement that has brought chaos to London and cities around the world with their ‘Autumn Uprising’ this month.

Mr Everson also uses the equally strange moniker ‘Lunchy Munchy’ and is a senior member of the ‘Friendsnotfood’ group in the West Country.