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ANTI-MUSLIM prejudice has replaced fear of immigration among Britons, according to a worrying new report by Hope Not Hate.
The charity said that while concerns around immigration had declined since 2011, “attitudes to Muslims in Britain have hardened,” with significant numbers of people seeing Islam as incompatible with British values.
A new poll of 5,200 people commissioned by Hope Not Hate found that 43 per cent believe that Britain’s multicultural society is working compared to 41 per cent who do not.
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
