MOSCOW (Sputnik) — She added that the campaigners tried to pit communities against each other, exploited fear and called on new UK Prime Minister Theresa May to eradicate such practices in the future.
“This concept of the enemy within and fifth columnists, which was raised by people like Ukip, has now started to creep into mainstream politics…. I do not hold anybody who voted for Brexit responsible for the rise in racism; I don’t hold people who believed in Brexit responsible; but I definitely hold politicians, who put out divisive xenophobic messages and posters, responsible because this created the atmosphere in which this thrived,” Warsi told the Guardian newspaper.
Earlier in July, the UK police reported that the number of hate crime incidents in the United Kingdom increased by 42 percent to more than 3,000 in the week before and the week after the Brexit referendum.
