Turning Point UK: Conservative Hooligans
Executive Summary
- Our investigation reveals that Turning Point UK (TPUK), which has been backed by many leading Conservative Party figures, is involved in far right street violence and has activists currently in prison.
- Red Flare infiltrated TPUK and saw members of the group’s secret “elite” Direct Action Team offering to sell weapons to other members ahead of protests which subsequently saw outbreaks of violent disorder.
- TPUK has extensive links with other far-right groups that have been involved in street violence and racist attacks stretching back decades.
- In November 2023, TPUK mobilised for far-right protests which caused widespread violence and disruption across Westminster, leading to 126 arrests and Suella Braverman’s subsequent resignation as Home Secretary.
- TPUK’s honorary president, Conservative candidate Marco Longhi may have misled the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards about his relationship to the group.
- We discovered that TPUK has spent nearly £30,000 on anti-Labour and anti-SNP Facebook adverts including over £7,000 on trying to stop Rebecca Long Bailey from replacing Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, by making a defamatory claim that Corbyn “accepted cash from Hamas and supports ISIS”.
