Four far-Right plots foiled in a year

FOUR violent far-Right plots were blocked by counter-terrorist police in 2017, Mark Rowley revealed last night.

Several of the conspiracies involved suspected neo-Nazis aligned to the banned National Action group.

Britain’s anti-terror chief warned that a ‘significant’ part of their work involved tackling an ‘organised’ white neo-Nazi threat.

Mr Rowley described National Action as a ‘home-grown, white supremacist, neo-Nazi terrorist organisation’.

He also singled out Tommy Robinson, frontman for the English Defence League, and Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen for spreading ‘discord and hatred’.

Mr Rowley claimed that Islamist and extreme Right-wing ideologies have ‘a great deal in common’ as they try to undermine a ‘peaceful, tolerant and democratic society’ by generating fear and hatred.

There is mounting concern at far-Right violence following the murder of MP Jo Cox in June 2016. Earlier this month, Darren Osborne was jailed for life for attacking Muslim worshippers with a van in Finsbury Park, North London.