On the ground with Tommy Robinson’s new supporters

与汤姆·罗宾逊的新支持者们并肩作战

Today in Focus

2025-09-16

37 分钟

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Who showed up for the biggest far-right rally in British history? Ben Quinn reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, on the ground from Stockport to central London, has the far right become a mass movement?

  • A quick warning before we start.

  • This episode contains some strong and offensive language.

  • It's an overcast Saturday morning at the very end of August,

  • two weeks before Tommy Robinson is planning what he is calling the biggest free speech rally in British history.

  • And I'm on some playing fields in Stockport near where I live in Greater Manchester.

  • Normally this is a park where kids play football,

  • but today I'm surrounded by people in Union Jack Outfits.

  • One woman, her face painted in the red and white of a St George's flag,

  • is holding a sign that says, not far right, just a concerned parent.

  • Do you know where they're going?

  • I wouldn't tell a news reporter though.

  • Okay.

  • Don't be silly.

  • Why do you think I'm here to find out what's going on?

  • I follow the crowd down a footpath and through a gap in a fence towards some trees.

  • No one seems to know where we're going.

  • We clamber over branches and overgrown weeds and then I realise where we are.

  • We're at the back of a hotel near the bedrooms.