There has been a surge of social media attacks on Rishi Sunak drawing on antisemitic conspiracy theories, casting the former banker as part of a “globalist” plot, with a sharp spike after Boris Johnson pulled out of the Conservative party leadership race.
Tweets linking Sunak to the false notion of a globalist conspiracy – often a dog-whistle term of abuse used by the far right, antisemites and anti-vaccine extremists – were viewed more than 21.3m times amid soaring online abuse of Britain’s first prime minister of colour.
