Overview

• Neville posted a LinkedIn video a day after two worshippers were killed at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation, blaming rising division on “angry, middle-aged white men.”
• He said he removed a Union Jack from one of his Manchester development sites because it was being used “in a negative fashion.”
• Calls for a Sky Sports boycott circulated online, while critics in the Jewish community and politicians said he unfairly stereotyped people and politicised the tragedy.
• Faith and Communities Minister Miatta Fahnbulleh said Neville was right to highlight people trying to stoke tension, as Conservative figures called his remarks polarising.
• Coverage linked the recent proliferation of Union and St George’s flags to Operation Raise the Colours, which advocacy group Hope Not Hate has associated with far-right figures.