Skip to main content
Work with the NEU
Anti-racists deride Home Office over far-right panic

Anti-racism campaign Hope Not Hate challenged suggestions by an anonymous Home Office adviser yesterday  that far-right groups were gaining ground in Britain.

Described as an “expert on right-wing extremism,” the adviser warned BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the government was placing an emphasis on the “global jihadist agenda” but ignoring the growth of the far right at home.

The Today report suggested that in particular the actions of Islamic State (Isis) and the 

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
SOLID RESPONSE: A Stand Up to Racism protest in Epping, Essex, on August 28 2025, under the banner of ‘Defend Refugees - Stop the Far Right - No to Fascist Tommy Robinson’
Features / 13 September 2025
13 September 2025

Listening to our own communities and organising within them holds the key to stopping the advance of Reform UK and other far-right initiatives, posits TONY CONWAY

ABUSE IGNORED: Children walk through Rotherham, one of the many northern towns ripped apart by decades of systematic grooming
Features / 20 June 2025
20 June 2025

To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped