Anti-Migrant Vigilante Group Mobilizes in Portsmouth Amid UK Far-Right Unification Efforts

‘Army of patriots’: how a black-clad Christian vigilante group swarmed Portsmouth

Daniel Thomas has spent months trying to unify the UK’s disparate far right to form a disciplined anti-migrant force Just a few days ago, Daniel “Tommo” Thomas let a group of fellow far-right sympathisers in the north-west of England into a secret. “Groups of men all across the United Kingdom are joining up as one, as one group of resistance,” said Thomas, a convicted kidnapper who is a former bodyguard to Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. “Something is about to go down and it ...

By Daniel Boffey, Steven Morris, Ben Quinn and Diane Taylor