SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Tommy Robinson's far-right coaching
The Story
The Times
4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The Times can reveal the English Defence League founder is charging around £28 a minute for videos giving practical advice to supporters on migrant hotel protests and anti-Islam activism. The private consultations raise concerns about the potential for radicalisation at a time of heightened tensions surrounding immigration issues.
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| 0:00.0 | If I've given any young advice for a young man in their 20s, get in the gym every day. |
| 0:13.3 | That will change your life. |
| 0:15.8 | Get in the gym. |
| 0:17.1 | Stop drinking. |
| 0:18.1 | Stop the alcohol. |
| 0:19.7 | This is a clip from a video offering advice sent in response to a query. |
| 0:24.6 | Get for it. |
| 0:25.6 | It's the best thing in the world, man. |
| 0:27.6 | That's what I wish I could have relive my life and done from my early 20s. |
| 0:32.6 | This might sound like sage advice for young people, but the man delivering it is Tommy Robinson, the far right |
| 0:39.7 | activist. This is from the same video. Remember when I first started, people said, |
| 0:48.0 | someone said to me, the hardest problem you have will be from within, and I thought, |
| 0:50.6 | what are you talking about? We're all men. We're fighting against Islam. |
| 0:56.8 | This is part of another video from the same site. |
| 1:01.9 | Look up, wherever you live, start Googling refugee rape, start looking at statistics, |
| 1:04.1 | look, maybe investigate the mosque, all these sorts of things. |
| 1:10.0 | The videos were sent in response to questions from a reporter at the Times, looking into a personal video platform, |
| 1:11.9 | he was promoting, selling one-to-one interactions. |
| 1:16.5 | So what has he been telling followers, and should we be worried about the possibilities of radicalisation, |
| 1:23.7 | at a time when the number of people referred for far-right extremism is on the rise. |
| 1:37.4 | From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is The Story. I'm Callum MacDonald. |
| 1:43.1 | The story today, Tommy Robinson's far-right coaching. |
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