‘The Most Extreme Policies We’ve Had from Any Political Party’

UK’s Leading Anti-Racism Campaigner Says Reform Is Bigger Threat than the BNP

Hope not Hate’s CEO Nick Lowles tells Adam Bienkov that Reform UK’s rise is mainstreaming ideas that were previously taboo even among sections of the far-right

Reform UK is now a significantly bigger threat to the UK than previous generations of parties such as the BNP, the founder of the country’s foremost anti-racism campaign group Hope Not Hate has told Byline Times.

Nick Lowles – whose new book How to Defeat the Far-Right was published last month – said that the party led by Nigel Farage was helping to mainstream political ideas that were previously deemed unacceptable, even among sections of the far-right.

“Back in 1999, the British National Party – led by a man who was a Holocaust denier, which thought that Britain shouldn’t have gone to war with Germany, and believed that black people were genetically inferior to whites – dropped their repatriation policy because they felt they couldn’t even sell it to their own supporters any more,” Lowles said.

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