Reform and Conservative Politicians Mingle With Neo-Nazis and Far-Right at Asylum Hotel Protests

The recent anti-migrant protests appear to be providing a bridge between mainstream elected politicians and extremist groups. Josiah Mortimer reports

As anti-migrant protests spread in England, the demonstrations are bringing together extremist groups with some politicians of the supposedly mainstream right, who are either failing to take steps to distance themselves or actively embracing the association.

The old ‘cordon sanitaire’ previously separating centre-right conservatives from the race-obsessed extreme right appears to be evaporating – with the issue of anti-migrant hotel protests opening up the space for this to happen.

Reform UK Councillors Protest Alongside ‘Neo-Nazi’

Five Reform councillors in Kent joined a ‘stop the boats’ protest in Maidstone in August, appearing in photos with a man draped in a flag of the British Movement, described as “one of the UK’s longest-standing neo-Nazi organisations”.

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