The comments made by Jeremy Corbyn, the Independent MP for Islington North, on 10 June 2026.
The far-right violence in Belfast is utterly sickening.
Houses set on fire. Migrants and minority ethnic people chased out of their homes. Shouts of “foreigners out”. Yet again, the far-right are weaponising an appalling attack to whip up hatred against entire communities.
When politicians demonise migrants, hatred spreads. When politicians call for ‘pure, cold rage,’ people listen. Their racist bile will not build a single hospital, help a single homeless person or lift a single child out of poverty.
There is only one way we can defeat the far-right: by standing up to racism, ending the grotesque economic injustices in our society, and fighting for a future where all people of all communities can live in dignity.