Europe’s far right exploit Henry Nowak murder in UK with populist rhetoric on race

What happened

According to The Guardian’s report, Europe’s far right exploit Henry Nowak murder in UK with populist rhetoric on race, Polish, Spanish and French populists focus on clips of teenager’s dying moments and accuse UK of descending ‘into depths of the earth’ UK politics live – latest updates Polish far-right politicians have claimed that the murder of Henry Nowak symbolises “Britain’s descent into the depths of the earth” as populists from France, Spain and Japan focused on harrowing clips of his dying moments. Despite pleas from Nowak’s family for people not to exploit the killing for political gain and to focus on cutting knife crime, their comments have focused on race and immigration. Continue reading…

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