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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Lizzie Dearden

Alex Davies: The politics student who founded Britain’s first neo-Nazi terrorist group after becoming ‘politically homeless’

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Alex Davies was an 18-year-old student about to embark on his first year at university when he started National Action.

In three years, it would become the first neo-Nazi terrorist group ever banned in the UK, after followers stockpiled weapons, built a pipe bomb and even plotted to murder an MP.

Davies told his trial at Winchester Crown Court that fomenting a race war was not his intention, but declared himself a national socialist and said he wanted to create a “nationalist Britain, which would be a white Britain”.

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