Ranvir Singh has come under fire for admitting she had apprehensions about a Unite the Kingdom protestor after their paths crossed over the weekend.
The demonstrator in question was joining the 150,000 people who took to London’s streets in what was billed by organiser Tommy Robinson as a display of free speech and patriotism.
Although the large majority of the protestors were peaceful, the Metropolitan Police confirmed that at least 25 people were arrested and 26 police officers were injured, with four seriously hurt.
Ms Singh didn’t take part in the rally and even altered her plans to avoid the capital after learning it was taking place.
However, after deciding to avoid going into central London with her son, Ms Singh encountered a demonstrator at her local station. “It was really interesting, actually. I changed my plans, which actually made me sad because I thought I should be allowed to go into London and feel safe, but I didn’t,” she began on Monday’s GMB.
“I didn’t take my son in; that made me sad. The fact that you think it’s not safe for my little brown boy to be in London is a sad thing.”
Presenter Richard Madeley then asked: “So you thought you weren’t safe because of the colour of his skin?”
Ms Singh explained her stance: “Yeah, I just thought I didn’t want him to be exposed to anything at Euston Station, and there were a lot of people there when we got there.
“It was interesting, at my local station, I was just queueing up to get a coffee and the man in front of me was getting coffee from the guy who I think is Sri Lankan at the station, and – a really jolly chap, white guy, said ‘I’m going into London, I’m gonna join the Tommy Robinson march’.
“And we just started chatting the three of us, which is what I think you need to do, interestingly, you do need to talk to people when you feel they’re on the opposite side to you.
“He said, ‘I’m just curious to know how fascist these people really are, my brother’s a bit more far-right and I’m keeping an eye on him today’. He said, ‘I don’t know how the protest’s going to go, the last one I went on was for Remain during Brexit’. Which again is flipping the idea of who ‘they’ are on its head.
“He goes, ‘You know, I’m worried about illegal migration, not all migration, just the illegal thing, I’m gonna go along’. He was very upbeat and jolly, and we laughed about the Remain thing… and actually, it was interesting because when he left, myself and the chap sort of took a deep breath, gave each other a grimace because – I’m going to say he was a lovely man even though he was going to a far-right march.”
Ms Singh explained further: “In my opinion, you’re going to support someone like Tommy Robinson, which makes me deeply uncomfortable, but the point is you’ve got to feel the pinch and have a conversation with someone.
“We both grimaced a little bit, and that was fine. I posted it on Instagram because I cannot believe – I don’t want to believe – that 150,000 people are out and out racist. That isn’t my experience of the country, so in my head, I just can’t equate that huge number of white faces with my experiences in this country. It just doesn’t seem right.
“So that’s why I posted it. I just thought if there was a march that was ‘if you’re worried about legal migration’, it would be much smaller than that. If it were a march, ‘Are you worried about migration overall?’, it would be a different number. If it were ‘Are you an Islamophobe? Do you want England to be white only?’
“There are so many nuances in those 150,000 people, and the worry for me is that somebody who has got a concern – I might have concerns about illegal migration, right? My mum might have a concern about that, but that man feels that he’s now only being heard and has to go and join the throng, and then you get corralled, and I worry about other people who join the ranks, and the voice that they end up being spoken for and by is someone who is very extreme.
“So to me, it was the nuance of it… Anybody of my skin colour today, you have to work against your instinct of fear.
“There was a Sikh woman who was racially raped in the West Midlands, it’s being investigated… that is out there in the public domain. Her evidence to the police is, ‘I was told you don’t belong in this country’.
“That’s a live investigation, that’s where we’ll leave it. I’m a Sikh woman. The climate we live in makes me nervous, but you have to work against the fear.”
Ms Singh continued to speak as she pointed out her desire to hear what the Church of England thought of Mr Robinson and fellow protestors using Christianity in their demonstrations.
“Were you surprised at the way this gentleman spoke to you?” Mr Madeley asked. “No, I wasn’t,” Ms Singh admitted. “I was relieved. It felt good to talk.
“And it felt good to talk to him because I think it confirmed my desire to believe that people feel frustrated, but that doesn’t mean they despise anybody who’s brown.”
While Ms Singh’s preconceived perceptions of the unnamed demonstrator were debunked following the interaction, her description of the man and the protests as a whole led many to take issue with her comments.
Taking to X to react to the discussion, one user hit out: “Please stop calling normal British people far right!!!! All colours and creeds were there on Saturday, and not for Tommy but for the British people!! Is GMB a far-left government puppet?”
‘I don’t want to believe that 150,000 are out and out racist’
Ranvir talks to @susannareid100 and Richard about the conversation she had with someone who attended the march in London on Saturday. pic.twitter.com/YmeXLDGhiu
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) September 15, 2025
“If a white man said he was surprised that a person of colour was a nice guy, I think he would be classed as a racist without any hesitation,” a second claimed.
And a third pointed out: “I saw people of all colours in the crowd, she’s just gaslighting, and it was way more than 150,000.”
“This is such BS,” a fourth fumed. “It wasn’t a racist rally or a ‘far-right march’. ‘It’s not safe for my little brown boy to be in London’ what a ridiculous thing to say and smear all those people, of whom many were ‘brown’. It’s scandalous how they frame that protest and people who went.”
Another weighed in: “I’ve always seen Ranvir as a well-balanced, educated woman, but she’s made that statement to suit a narrative. Just because people are worried about our insecure borders & those who arrive here unchecked, why is she even thinking they may be racist? They’re norma,l concerned folk!”
And a sixth also hit out: “@GMB when the British march for our country and our flag, why is it always called Far Right.. this is the problem with Britain, the paid media labelling and dividing..”
However, Ms Singh’s take did receive plenty of plaudits. “I thought Ranvir’s comments were honest, fair, and balanced,” one supporter said.
“She didn’t label anyone, simply expressed her truth and fears, and clearly stated she doesn’t believe march attendees are racist. She spoke well and conveyed her views effectively.”
And a second agreed: “Actually, I thought this was a really good insight from Ranvir. She had a preconceived assumption that those going on the Unite The Kingdom march were a bunch of racists, and her assumption was proved wrong when she actually spoke to someone.” (sic)