“The perpetrator of the attack argues that the white race is quickly becoming extinct. This is a common idea that runs through the European far right.”

“But very soon, we forget about the fact that Britain has experienced what seems to be a far right political assassination of a member of parliament, and it speaks to … the kind of acceptability of a certain kind of far right set of politics now in British political life.”

“Not everyone who voted Leave was a racist or an Islamophobe or a xenophobe but the discourse of that movement was … clearly mobilising around Islamophobia and around xenophobia and racism.”

“Brexit was the first significant victory in foreign policy for the radical right. So far the far right has not really been seen as a major player in foreign policy and so this is huge and it clearly has inspired Marine Le Pen, Geert Wilders and others.”

“The one thing that we do know over the past hundred-and-so years of European history is political projects, political parties have come and gone, but nationalism has remained stubbornly persistent.”

“I don’t know if Marine le Pen will succeed in winning the next presidential election, but if we don’t change this political situation in France, one day, she will succeed in it, yes.”