RMT leader Eddie Dempsey's stark warning shook up a fringe meeting at the Scottish TUC
Tories suck up to far right
As the Conservatives lose electoral ground some of them hope the extremists will shore them up, warns WEYMAN BENNETT

MANY would have believed that the sacking of Suella Braverman might herald the end of the Sunak government’s systematic attempts to scapegoat refugees and stir up the far right, but it’s clear that this is not the case.
Braverman was a long way out there. She’s been pushing at the margins of politics, associating herself with the far-right great replacement theory and ramping up rhetoric that she knew could lead to far-right mobilisation and violence.
The government’s failure to push its Rwanda plan through the Supreme Court led, not to reflection, but instead Sunak promising emergency legislation and a new treaty with Rwanda.
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