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Thank you. So on this one particular. So on this one particular day, the B&P were meeting in a pub in Hollingwood.

And the weather outside was 90 degrees.

It was a sweltering day in the summer of 2001 and instead of enjoying the sunshine, Nick Lowles

was sweating in the back of a van in a pub car park in Oldham in Greater Manchester.

Now we were sitting in a van for probably about seven hours and it was like sitting in a coat can.

It was unbelievable. We ended up, we were sitting in our boxer shorts. We were so hot.

Two months earlier, race riots had erupted across the town and the BMP, the far-right British National Party, sensed an opportunity.

Inside the pub, Nick Griffin, the BMP's leader, a Holocaust denier who wanted Britain to be,

quote, 99% white, was holding a meeting. Outside, the other Nick, let's call in the good Nick, wanted to know who was going to show up.

That's why, along with a colleague from the anti-fascist group searchlight, he was sat silently in his pants with a long lens trained on the pub entrance.

People were coming up trying to peer in to see if anyone was inside. It was kind of one-way window, so we could see out clearly, but they obviously couldn't see it.

But of course, in those sorts of situations, you never know whether it's going to work or not.

Nick held his breath as a man from a neo-Nazi group approached the blacked-out windows.

One of the people who had been involved in combat 18 was peering in.

He was like literally leaning into the window and we're sitting in an absolute fear.

Because first of all, you know, not only, you know, what would have happened to us,

but two bloke sitting in the van in boxers shorts, that would have been a sorry for the far right as well.

Nick Lowell's has been taking risks to expose the far right for decades.

As head of Hope Not Hate, he's helped to identify terrorists, disrupted fascist groups,

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