Is 2019 the Year Britain's Post War Far Right Finally Died? A Long Read.
In 2010 the BNP were able to run 338 candidates for Parliament, humiliatingly the 2019 general election saw them field just one - and he lost his deposit. This trajectory marks a historical low-point for the traditional British far-right parties. But it doesn't tell us the whole story. With many of the far-right's ideas mainstreamed, and Brexit shifting the agenda from immigration, the attractiveness of the far right was severely limited by a Conservative party that drained the far rig...