Overview

• Historian Rafe Heydel-Mankoo told GB News that English identity has been traduced and said, “the English have had enough.”
• Anti-racism advocates, including Stand Up To Racism’s Sabby Dhalu, argue far-right groups are driving the push to make migrants feel unwelcome.
• Local authorities have removed unauthorised flags and cleaned painted crosses on safety and legal grounds, with one Reform UK council set to repaint a roundabout.
• Downing Street’s spokesman voiced support for public expressions of English patriotism, including displaying national flags.
• Police inquiries continue, and at least one man was arrested in Essex after a cross was painted above an Indian restaurant as racist language was recorded on video.