Ben Quinn reports on how Tommy Robinson became a key figure in British far right politics On 29 July, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was due in court for repeating libellous allegations about Jamal Hijazi, a teenage Syrian refugee who was attacked on a playing field in West Yorkshire. Instead, he was in a hotel in Cyprus. Following the murder of three girls in Southport that day, Yaxley-Lennon, who uses the pseudonym Tommy Robinson, took to social media to spread misinformation and Islamophobic rhetoric.

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