Reform UK beset by internal row over response to Dover and Portsmouth protests
The far-right group Patriot Platform hold a ‘vigil’ at the RNLI station in Poole, Dorset, on Wednesday. Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenThe far-right group Patriot Platform hold a ‘vigil’ at the RNLI station in Poole, Dorset, on Wednesday. Yusuf later reflected that Thomas – a convicted criminal and long-term associate of the activist who calls himself Tommy Robinson – made his points “respectfully” and challenged Kemi Badenoch’s condemnation of the group.
- ▪The far-right group Patriot Platform hold a ‘vigil’ at the RNLI station in Poole, Dorset, on Wednesday.
- ▪Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenThe far-right group Patriot Platform hold a ‘vigil’ at the RNLI station in Poole, Dorset, on Wednesday.
- ▪Yusuf later reflected that Thomas – a convicted criminal and long-term associate of the activist who calls himself Tommy Robinson – made his points “respectfully” and challenged Kemi Badenoch’s condemnation of the group.
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The far-right group Patriot Platform hold a ‘vigil’ at the RNLI station in Poole, Dorset, on Wednesday. Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenThe far-right group Patriot Platform hold a ‘vigil’ at the RNLI station in Poole, Dorset, on Wednesday. Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty ImagesReform UKAnalysisReform UK beset by internal row over response to Dover and Portsmouth protestsBen Quinn and Neha GohilNigel Farage said demonstrators in balaclavas were ‘horrible’, but others in the party defend them as ‘brave, passionate patriots’Fri 11 Sep 2026 00.00 EDTLast modified on Fri 11 Sep 2026 00.01 EDTShareNigel Farage’s condemnation of the masked men whose blockade of Dover stole headlines on the final day of his party’s annual conference was swift, describing their…
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