- Thursday, April 25, 2024
By: Keerthi Mohan
by NADEEM BADSHAH CAMPAIGNERS and MEPs have welcomed the failure of Tommy Robinson and UKIP in the European elections but have warned about the sweeping rise of far-right parties in other countries. Former English Defence League founder Robinson, accused of pursuing an anti-Muslim agenda, did not secure enough votes to win an MEP seat in the North West last weekend as did UKIP. However, in France president Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance alliance was defeated by the far-right National Rally of Marine Le Pen, while anti-immigration parties also fared well in Germany, Belgium, Hungary and Italy. In the UK, Nigel Farage’s Brexit…
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