Far-right thugs exploit Black Lives Matter movement, warns UK anti-extremism chief

Home Office commissioner Sara Khan reveals surge in online hate material since death of George Floyd

The Black Lives Matter movement has been aggressively exploited by the UK’s far right, which has recruited and radicalised people on the back of its success, the government’s chief adviser on extremism has warned.

Sara Khan, Britain’s first counter-extremism commissioner, said far-right activists had used the death of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter (BLM) to propagate white supremacist narratives online.

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