STOKING THE FLAMES - THE INFLUENCE OF TABLOID PRESS AND GOVERNMENT RHETORIC ON FAR-RIGHT ANTI-MIGRANT ENGAGEMENT

We increasing as the Government’s ‘Stop the show that a time series of government boats’ campaign ramps up statements and policy announcements The number of messages about migration on the topic of migration is predictive of in our dataset of far-right Telegram the number of messages about migration groups has increased from an average of in a large dataset of far-right groups on 761 messages per. [...] As the cost of living As the new asylum crisis dominates plans are announced, headlines over the the Home Secretary Christmas and new claims the overhaul is year period, coverage “firm but fair” and that of the cost of other EU countries contingency asylum have a “moral duty” accommodation The Times, 5/2/21 to help. [...] The dramatic rise of this including both national newspapers as well as very specific topic is notable and is a clear local newspapers, from our Telegram dataset indication of the role that government policy in order to analyse the frequency importance plays in directing the focus of the anti-migrant of different publications and the responses to far right. [...] media outlets who had published more critical Prior to the release of the Nationality and coverage of the Rwanda policy, such as the Borders Bill in March 2021, then Home Guardian, the Independent, the Financial Times Secretary Priti Patel used restricted press and the BBC29. [...] Coverage of Telegraph, The Sun, The Daily Mail, The Daily the trip, and the conclusions subsequently Telegraph, The Times and The Sunday Times25.