A line was drawn between what was acceptable and unacceptable in rightwing politics, and Mosley was on the wrong side of it. Meanwhile Boris Johnson, and many of his ministers, party members and newspaper allies, have adopted the boot-boy phrases and demagoguery of the far right. But the origins of this tilt towards the far right lie further in the past: in a calmer, more comfortable period of British politics, when a deep complacency set in. Centrists such as Tony Blair defined themselves very clearly against what they called “the hard left”, and later against Islamic radicalism; they talked much less about the far right. To marginalise the far right again will be a huge task.

Source: The Guardian October 05, 2019 04:52 UTC