US HARD-RIGHT influence in Britain is on the rise, a new report has revealed.

The Institute of Race Relations’ (IRR) latest study, Enforcing Britishness, examines trends on the far right, and finds that British politics has shifted towards hard-right policies associated with Trumpism.

It points to the organisation and branding of Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom “free speech festival” in September as indicative of “an attempt to create a UK version of Make America Great Again.”

US billionaire Elon Musk appeared by video link at the protest, where demonstrators chanted “We love Trump.”

The influence extends to Reform, the report said, referencing a Sunday Times article which suggested that a think tank linked to the group, the Centre for a Better Britain, is seeking funds from sources connected to the Maga movement, registering a base in Texas.

And over the summer, former Tory home secretary Suella Braverman addressed an anti-asylum rally in Hampshire backed by the British branch of US think tank Turning Point.

The IRR report also noted that the US trend of “anti-woke” journalism has embedded itself in legacy press and GB News, attacking charities helping refugees.

Meanwhile a “cottage industry” of far-right streamers and “migrant hunters” claim to be “citizen journalists,” it said.

“Questions need to be asked of police forces as to why they allow these far-right live-streamers and influencers to pass through police cordons and provoke protesters,” the report says.

Author of the report, IRR director Liz Fekete said: “Today, the violent enforcers of Britishness are active across the country, enforcing the internal racist frontier, the frontier between ‘us’ and ‘them.’

“It’s vital that we fight back against this intimidation, which also shrinks the space in which NGOs operate.

“While people will be rightly concerned with safety, we also need to recognise that real security comes from ending corrosive culture wars, expanding local democracy, and developing an everyday anti-racism, in recognition that solidarity is strength and neighbourhood belongs to all of us.”