The Latest Breaking News from RaiseColours

Number of UK anti-migrant vigilante groups surges in last 18 months

Exclusive: Many ‘use community protection as a cover for racist thuggery’, raising concerns about fresh disorder

The Guardian - UK · Sep 12

Reform UK beset by internal row over response to Dover and Portsmouth protests

Nigel Farage said demonstrators in balaclavas were ‘horrible’, but others in the party defend them as ‘brave, passionate patriots’

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11

Raise the Colours leader given access to Reform UK conference while on bail

Ryan Bridge, arrested this year on suspicion of religiously and racially aggravated harassment, says party invited him

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5

‘Not a culture war’: the council that won its case over England flags on lampposts

Leader of local authority in Oxfordshire faces backlash over injunction ‘to maintain neutral, safe space for residents’

The Guardian - UK · Jun 27

Nationalist group leaders agree to stop hoisting St George’s flags in Oxfordshire

Local council secures high court injunction against four leaders of Raise the Colours campaign and ‘persons unknown’

The Guardian - UK · Jun 23

Cross purposes: how the England flag got caught in a tug-of-war between rightwing nationalists and football fans

Last summer the St George’s cross was co-opted by anti-immigrant groups. Now, as the World Cup begins, some communities are reclaiming it as a symbol of a very different sort of pride

The Guardian - UK · Jun 17

UK man hospitalised after van attack during Birmingham flag removal clash

In Birmingham, a man has been admitted to the hospital with a fractured leg following a collision with a van amid tense confrontations over far-right union flags. Local residents, trying to dismantle the flags placed by the organization Raise the Colours, reported facing hostility and violence. The van involved in…

The Times of India · May 16

Man hit by van in Birmingham after residents take down union flags put up by anti-migrant group

Police investigate incident on Thursday after witness claims seeing Raise the Colours logo on side of vehicle

The Guardian - UK · May 15

Shropshire council staff met with rising ‘abuse and intimidation’ over removal of flags

Authority says workers and councillors ‘threatened for explaining the council’s position’ as union jack and St George’s flags taken down

The Guardian - UK · May 4

UK flag-raising group leader arrested on suspicion of causing ‘alarm and distress’

Ryan Bridge is co-founder of Raise the Colours, which has been criticised for anti-immigrant rhetoric

The Guardian - UK · Apr 2