Britain’s teenage neo-Nazis show the danger of online radicalisation

Analysis: Following the example set by Isis, far-right groups are radicalising children online, Lizzie Dearden writes

Head of counterterrorism Neil Basu called far-right extremism an ‘increasing’ threat (PA)

Picture the British far right and the image most likely conjured up will be of middle-aged men at a protest, perhaps a group like the English Defence League or British National Party.

But as counterterror police have now warned, the face of right-wing extremism in the UK is changing to become younger and more “digital savvy”.

Officers have revealed that they have investigated children as young as 14 for involvement in neo-Nazi movements, whose leaders are deliberately preying on vulnerable minds susceptible to their poisonous rhetoric.