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v. t. e. The far-right, extreme right, hard right, radical right, fascist-right and ultra-right are terms used to discuss the position a group or person occupies within right-wing politics. The terms are often used to imply that someone is an extremist. The terms have been used by different scholars in somewhat conflicting ways.
v. t. e. Far-right politics are a recurring phenomenon in the United Kingdom since the early 20th century, with the formation of Nazi, fascist and antisemitic movements. One of the earliest examples of fascism in the UK can be found as early as 1923 with the formation of British Fascisti by Rotha Lintorn-Orman. [ 1][ 2] It went on to acquire ...
On the evening of 31 July, a group of approximately 40 demonstrators [113] gathered outside a Holiday Inn in Manchester, which was purportedly housing asylum seekers. Chants were heard of the group exclaiming "we want our country back", a phrase associated with far-right groups in the UK. [114] Two people were arrested. [115]
Last month’s general election saw Reform UK, a populist right-wing group running on a confrontational anti-migration platform, pick up the third-most votes of any party, after a campaign in ...
Officers made 145 arrests during the Pro-Palestinian demonstration and counter-protest by far-right groups on Saturday, said the Metropolitan Police. The majority of those arrested were members of ...
An alleged right-wing extremist who was brought back to Britain from Spain has denied disseminating terrorist publications . Kristofer Thomas Kearney, 37, a British national based in Alicante, is ...
The National Front was established as a coalition of small extreme-right groups which were active on the fringes of British politics during the 1960s. [1] These were the British National Party (BNP), the League of Empire Loyalists (LEL), the Racial Preservation Society (RPS), the Greater Britain Movement (GBM), and some branches of the Anglo-Rhodesian Society. [1]
Far-right politics have led to oppression, political violence, forced assimilation, ethnic cleansing, and genocide against groups of people based on their supposed inferiority or their perceived threat to the native ethnic group, nation, state, national religion, dominant culture, or conservative social institutions.