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Today in Focus

Tommy Robinson and the evolution of Britain’s far right

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Ben Quinn reports on how Tommy Robinson became a key figure in British far right politics. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:09.0

Today, the return of Tommy Robinson. This is the sound of your performance at Wembley.

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visit the Guardian.com forward slash Myra Showers. A quick warning before we start this episode contains offensive language. On a hot summer Saturday in late July, Britain's premiere

1:09.4

for right agitator called a protest in Central London under the banner of uniting the kingdom.

1:16.5

Now I ask you every one of you here today are here to stand for something.

1:24.0

Promoted as a patriotic show of force.

1:27.0

It started with a march outside the Royal Courts of Justice,

1:30.0

heading towards Trafalgar Square,

1:32.0

where a stage and three huge screens were set up.

1:34.3

20 to 30,000 people turned up for the six hour event,

1:41.9

with half a million watching online from all over the world.

1:46.4

It was the biggest far-right gathering in the UK in decades.

1:51.0

Part sing along, part call to arms. Speakers included Lawrence Fox, the actor turned Alt

1:55.8

Right Rabelrauser, that Andrew Bridgin, the former MP thrown out of the Tory Party

2:00.5

for spreading anti-vaccine conspiracies.

2:03.0

But the undisputed star of the show was its organizer Tommy Robinson. He'd largely,

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