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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Daniel Boffey Chief reporter

How huge London far-right march lifted the lid on a toxic transatlantic soup

Unite the Kingdom demonstration in London
Far-right British protesters with a photograph of Charlie Kirk and a poster referencing him at the ‘unite the kingdom’ march. Photograph: Krisztián Elek/SOPA Images/Shutterstock

A young man in a suit made of union jacks held up a framed photograph of their hero above his head. The crowd loudly chanted the name. The focus of this acclamation was not Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, the organiser of the so-called “free speech” march in central London last Saturday.

They were instead shouting themselves hoarse for Charlie Kirk, the murdered political activist from Cook County in the US state of Illinois.

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