Far-Right Asylum Protests Escalate Across England as Home Secretary Draws the Line

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has issued her sharpest warning yet against far-right activists targeting asylum housing sites, calling anti-asylum campaigner Daniel Thomas "a far-right and outright racist" who will face "the full force of the law" if his organisation breaks the law near contested sites such as Piddington in Oxfordshire. Mahmood is trying to perform a delicate political manoeuvre: distinguishing between legitimate local anxieties about large-scale asylum...