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Far-right and anti-immigration protests spike under Starmer government | The Independent
Research from ACLED indicated there have been 328 anti-immigration or far right protests in 22 months of Sir Keir’s administration, compared with 63 across four and a half years of Tory leadership.
Source: The Independent | 19 May 2026
[...]Research from independent conflict monitor ACLED indicated there have been 328 anti-immigration or far right protests in 22 months of Sir Keir’s administration, compared with 63 across four and a half years of Tory leadership.
The number of protests first began to surge after the 2024 Southport attack and were sparked by online misinformation that fuelled tensions around asylum accommodation and migration policy, ACLED said.
[...]Joel Crisetig, ACLED’s assistant research manager, said that far right and anti migration activists had found success in turning localised incidents, such as those in Southport or Epping, into national topics. [...]
