The British Political-Media Class’ Mainstreaming of the Populist Radical-Right

Julian Petley explores how hard-right views have increasingly been normalised as the ‘common sense’ of the more mainstream right

Last year, the BBC received a complaint from Richard Tice, the then Leader of Reform UK, that an article in one of its news reports had referred to his party as “far-right”, which he argued was “defamatory and libellous”.

The corporation immediately apologised and removed the offending sentence. Tice also claimed that his lawyers had warned other media organisations about describing his party in these terms.

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