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The Story

Inside Britain’s far right

The Story

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Politics, Daily News, News

41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Riots have engulfed Britain after the stabbing of three girls in Southport. The far-right are being blamed for inciting the violence and disorder - but how has the far-right gained momentum and what does it stand for? 

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Guest: Dominic Kennedy, Investigations Editor, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana. 

Clips: Sky News, ITV News, BBC News, BBC Question Time, X/@TRobinsonNewEra.

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0:00.0

BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind,

0:06.1

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas.

0:16.0

We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in

0:26.0

2023. VP.com slash and not all. From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story.

0:37.0

I'm Manveen Rana. It's normal for the foreign office to warn us not to travel to countries that are

0:50.8

racked by war or civil unrest.

0:55.0

What feels strange is to find other countries adding the UK to that list.

1:01.0

Several, including Australia, are now advising their citizens to avoid Britain after a week in which violent riots have erupted in towns and cities across the country.

1:14.0

It all began last Tuesday in Southport,

1:22.0

a town in shock.

1:26.7

A grief-stricken community came together

1:29.6

at a vigil to mourn the killing

1:32.3

of three little girls in a knife attack.

1:35.0

Never want to be that person that's in that situation what these poor families are going through at the moment

1:40.0

so I just wanted to come and show our respects really.

1:43.0

It is really a caring place.

1:45.0

People help each other.

1:48.0

And I feel so many just wanted to come and be part of it.

1:59.0

This information about the killer was already spreading online. Within hours, hundreds of rioters from the far right, spurred on by social media, descended on the town,

2:07.0

attacking the police and the local mosque. The mother of one of the three girls killed in a mass stabbing in Southport has called on the violence in the town to stop.

2:30.0

Within days, violence had flared up in cities from London to Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Bristol and even Belfast. In Sunderland the police station was set on fire as protesters chanted

2:53.0

whose streets our streets.

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