The efforts of Reform UK’s leadership to professionalise their party have hit a major stumbling block: dissenters within who have expressed sympathy for Tommy Robinson and his supporters.
Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage is no stranger to condemning Robinson, who founded the English Defence League (EDL) in my hometown of Luton in response to the notorious anti-military “Butchers of Basra” demonstrations in 2009. Under leader Gerard Batten, Farage resigned from the UK Independence Party (UKIP), citing the leadership’s “obsession” with Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) and “fixation with the issue of Islam”.
