Dr Paul Stocker is a Historian of the far right in Britain and a Research Associate at Teesside University’s Centre for Fascist, Anti-Fascist and Post-Fascist Studies. He is the author of English Upri
Johnson’s success in the Conservative leadership election is based upon undeliverable or potentially disastrous promises, either of which will only increase the Brexit Party surge.
Farage’s former party is a remarkably useful foil for him to deny his own links to the radical right, allowing himself to be painted as a ‘moderate’ figure (he is anything but).
The idea Britons voted to leave the EU in order to become ‘more global’ is mere propaganda from politicians who have mainstreamed far right attitudes to immigration.
