Tens of thousands of protestors gathered in Downing Street to protest American President Donald Trump's new executive orders banning people from Muslim-majority nations from traveling to the US.

By 6pm at least 5,000 people had turned out, brandishing placards and signs while chanting "refugees are welcome here".

By 7pm the crowd had swelled to well over 10,000 people and thousands more were arriving to replace the ones leaving.

Speakers, including Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti, could only be heard by the people right at the front, while the rest of the crowd chanted various anti-Trump verses.

There was also a significant amount of frustration with the lack of a response from Prime Minister Theresa May, with crowds chanting "Donald and May sitting in a tree, F-A-C-S-I-S-T."

Many people from South London attended the march, including a group of concerned Jewish locals.

Emmanuelle Smith, from Brixton, was part of a Jewish group who had decided to meet up for the demonstration.

She said: "I'm here for solidarity with Muslims. It's just a feeling as a Jew I can't see history repeating itself.

"Theresa May's response has been shameful, absolutely shameful. She said at the start she would intervene if it affected British people but that's not the point of this."

Lianna Etkind, 32, from Forest Hill, said: "In 1939 the British did let my grandfather in from Nazi Germany. Not all of his family made it.

"That has given me a strong feeling that refugees should be given sanctuary and asylum. It makes me angry that Britain and America are going backwards."

The fear of repeating history was on a lot of the protestors' minds. Alex Gilbert, 37, from Tooting, showed up on his way home from work on his bike and high-visibility clothes.

He said: "I am here because we are British and down with this sort of thing. I was thinking what signs should I write, but I thought should do the British thing and say that this is just not cricket.

"It's terrifying that this is now happening. This feels a lot like the bit in the history book before it goes all arrows on a map."

Liz Cope, 32, from Tulse Hill, said of Trump's executive orders: "It's illegal and I think it it goes against British values and my values.

"It's a terrifying prospect and if we are silent we are at risk of repeating history."