Search results for ‘far-right’
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Exclusive: Neo-Nazi and National Front organiser quits movement, opens up about Jewish heritage, comes out as gay
A white supremacist active as recently as the start of this year says today he is publicly renouncing 40 years of hate. Speaking on Channel 4 News he comes out as gay for the first time – and admits to a violent past.
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Former army officer elected Ukip leader
Ukip has avoided a split in its ranks after a former army officer was elected as its new leader, beating the far-right, anti-Islamic, candidate, Anne Marie Waters. Henry Bolton secured over 3,800 votes, 1,000 more than Ms Waters, who came second. The result, announced at the party’s conference in Torquay, was greeted with cheers in…
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Bree Newsome: ‘Words are never as powerful as action’
Joining us from New York is Casey Michel a journalist who covers the far-right and from Charlotte in North Carolina is the artist and civil rights activist – Bree Newsome – who, in 2015, climbed the flagpole in front of the South Carolina Capitol building and lowered the confederate battle flag. The flag was originally…
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Le Pen hails ‘massive result’
Whilst Emmanuel Macron won a very decisive victory, his achievement was tempered by the success of the National Front. His opponent Marine Le Pen scored a record result for a far-right party, with more than a third of those who voted backing her.
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FactCheck Q&A: does Macron’s victory mark the death of right-wing populism?
Macron’s French presidency win has been hailed as a victory against the “populist revolution”. FactCheck takes a closer look.
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Le Pen claims ‘ideological victory’
In France, the far-right leader Marine Le Pen has said whether or not her party wins Sunday’s election, “we changed everything”. Despite lagging over 20 points behind centrist Emmanuel Macron in the polls, the National Front candidate claimed she had won an “ideological victory.”
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Le Pen upstages Macron in factory visit
Battling for France’s blue-collar vote and employing all of her political guile, far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen upstaged her centrist rival Emmanuel Macron by making a surprise campaign stop today at a factory threatened with closure.
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French elections: Macron and Le Pen through to second round
Good evening from Paris, from another election which tore up all the establishment rules,trouncing the mainstream parties which have run France for more than 50 years. In a tight contest, two candidates won through to the second round, centrist Emmanuel Macron, with 24.0 percent, and the far-right’s Marine Le Pen, who took 21.3 percent.
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FactCheck: No, Muslims in London didn’t celebrate the Paris attack
The men are cricket fans celebrating Pakistan’s victory over Sri Lanka in a 20/20 match in 2009.
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The French General Election approaches its climax
The far-right Marine Le Pen is holding her final rally of the campaign – is she on the verge of breakthrough or about to fall?
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Is Le Pen losing ground in French elections?
Now to yet another contest with the potential to change the course of history: the French Presidential election. With just days to go, the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen may not get the easy ride in the first round she was hoping for.
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Le Pen meets Putin in Moscow
Russian President Vladimir Putin has met the far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen in the Kremlin, and insisted – yes, insisted – that Moscow had no intention of interfering in the French elections.
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Brendan Cox: “We succeed by bringing communities closer together”
Yesterday’s terrorist attack was aimed at the heart of British democracy, the Houses of Parliament. But it is less than a year since one of its elected representatives died at the hands of a far-right extremist.
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Wilders poised to make gains in Dutch elections
He’s a bleached-blond, anti-Islam, far-right politician who’s riding a populist wave… not Donald Trump, this is Geert Wilders, poised to make sweeping gains in next week’s Dutch elections.
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Wilders vows to ‘de-Islamise’ the Netherlands
The Dutch general election next month shows all the signs of following a now familiar pattern: a populist movement rising up to upset the established political order. The far-right Freedom Party is on course to win the most seats and is appealing to an electorate ready to hear anti-immigration and eurosceptic rhetoric. Today its leader…
