Cultivating conspiracy: how Boris Johnson amplified the far right

Prime minister follows Donald Trump playbook by tacitly endorsing wild conspiracy theory to score pointsWhat started out as a conspiracy meme on the outer reaches of the internet has, with the help of Boris Johnson, swiftly established itself amid the cocktail of ideas and conspiracies that define the new extreme right.The protesters who surrounded Keir Starmer on Monday night mostly shouted the word “traitor” – once a term of abuse against pro-EU MPs during the Brexit crisis &