RACISTS are running Restore Britain’s election campaign in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, an investigation by Stand Up to Racism (SUTR) has found.

Key figures in candidate Tyler Johnson’s campaign have a history of racist and antisemitic remarks as well as involvement in fascist activities.

Mr Johnson’s principal nominator, Patrick McGinnis, has published a video entitled “Jewish ideas are destroying our country, not Islamic ideas,” in which he blamed “Jewish ideas” for feminism, transgender inclusion, the decline of Christianity, Britain’s economic problems and the alleged weakening of national institutions.

He also claimed that “the media is owned by zionists.”

Lewis Holmes, who appears to be an organiser of the by-election campaign according to SUTR, has described small-boat migration as an “invasion,” called for “third worlders” to be deported and posted antisemitic and conspiracist content.

Restore’s campaign photographs in the constituency also include Michael Newland, once a leading figure in the fascist British National Party and Callum Barker, a former activist in the fascist Homeland organisation and a leader of anti-refugee protests in Epping.

Stand Up to Racism co-convener Weyman Bennett said: “Restore Britain cannot dismiss this evidence as a handful of embarrassing social-media endorsements.

“Fascists and Nazis have been involved in the formal and practical work of its first parliamentary campaign in London.

“This is a warning about the political space Restore Britain is constructing. Its programme of mass deportation and its presentation of migration as an invasion are attracting people from older fascist organisations, newer neonazi groups and anti-refugee street campaigns.”

Mr Bennett added that Restore leader Rupert Lowe MP “must answer for the political forces his organisation is bringing together and legitimising.”

Richard Donnelly, a senior researcher at SUTR, said: “This investigation is based on official nomination records, original social-media posts, publicly available video and a series of campaign photographs.

“It does not depend on guilt by association. It documents identifiable people performing identifiable functions: formally nominating a candidate, organising volunteers, distributing campaign material and apparently addressing campaigners.

“Restore is attempting to give Britain’s dispersed fascist milieu an electoral and organisational home.

“The involvement of these figures cannot be treated as an accidental contamination of an otherwise conventional campaign.

“Restore’s politics have created an environment in which veterans of the BNP and activists from newer fascist organisations evidently believe that they belong.”

SUTR does not allege that Mr Johnson personally shares every statement or political position expressed by the people documented in the evidence.

Restore Britain was contacted for comment.