‘Outright racist’ activist Daniel Thomas will face ‘full force of law’ over any crimes, says home secretary
Shabana Mahmood referred to ‘the far right and outright racists like Danny Thomas’ (above) whose behaviour was ‘completely unacceptable’. Photograph: Theo Shaw/PAView image in fullscreenShabana Mahmood referred to ‘the far right and outright racists like Danny Thomas’ (above) whose behaviour was ‘completely unacceptable’. But it is important to distinguish that anxiety, where reasonable people can have a conversation, and the far right and outright racists like Danny Thomas walking into town, hijacking an issue and then using that to divide our communities,” she said.“Their behaviour is completely unacceptable.
- ▪Shabana Mahmood referred to ‘the far right and outright racists like Danny Thomas’ (above) whose behaviour was ‘completely unacceptable’.
- ▪Photograph: Theo Shaw/PAView image in fullscreenShabana Mahmood referred to ‘the far right and outright racists like Danny Thomas’ (above) whose behaviour was ‘completely unacceptable’.
- ▪But it is important to distinguish that anxiety, where reasonable people can have a conversation, and the far right and outright racists like Danny Thomas walking into town, hijacking an issue and then using that to divide our communities,”
The Guardian — UK publishes from United Kingdom and files mainly under news. We currently carry 432 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | The Guardian — UK |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/18/daniel-thomas-shabana-mahmood-far-right-extremism-asylum-sites |
| Publication time | Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:01:01 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-17T23:08:44.682Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-17T23:08:44.682Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | xwKdepPzkiUR · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Shabana Mahmood referred to ‘the far right and outright racists like Danny Thomas’ (above) whose behaviour was ‘completely unacceptable’. Photograph: Theo Shaw/PAView image in fullscreenShabana Mahmood referred to ‘the far right and outright racists like Danny Thomas’ (above) whose behaviour was ‘completely unacceptable’. Photograph: Theo Shaw/PAFar right‘Outright racist’ activist Daniel Thomas will face ‘full force of law’ over any crimes, says home secretaryShabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sitesRajeev Syal Home affairs editorThu 17 Sep 2026 19.01 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleShabana Mahmood has described the anti-asylum activist Daniel Thomas as “a far-right and outright racist” who will feel “the…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at The Guardian — UK.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from The Guardian — UK
