The views of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, the British far-right activist known as Tommy Robinson, are too extreme for any major political party in the UK. Even Nigel Farage, the standard bearer for Britain’s right wing, has said Robinson has no place in his Reform UK party.
Yet Yaxley-Lennon, who is known for making incendiary remarks about Muslims and immigrants, was welcomed to the US state department last week as a “free speech warrior”.
His warm reception in Washington is only the latest instance of the Trump administration promoting an anti-immigration advocate as a martyr of free speech, in an intensifying culture war that has spread across the Atlantic.
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