Remember when Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was simply a thug running a tiny white nationalist group?
In the early reporting of the English Defence League – founded in 2009 but suffering an ever-dwindling support base since 2013 – the man who uses the alias Tommy Robinson (after a prominent Luton football hooligan) wouldn’t even give a second name to the press, for fear of being “targeted by extremists”.
Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month
Content from our partners
