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Splintering far right gives way to new wave of teenage fascists

TEENAGE neonazis are on the rise even as the British far right splinters into oblivion, anti-fascists warned yesterday.

In an end of year report, Hope Not Hate also raised fears of the danger of “lone wolf attacks” and the increasingly fertile ground for anti-Muslim propaganda on the back of the Paris attacks.

Report co-author Matthew Collins told the Star that while the leadership of fascist groups is younger it is also “less experienced.”

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