The political tumult in post-Brexit U.K. politics has given the country a new prime minister: Theresa May, set to take office Wednesday. That was a defeat for the wing of the ruling Conservative Party that actively campaigned for the country to leave the European Union, but it’s not seen as a defeat for the right. As the home secretary, roughly Westminster’s equivalent of a U.S. secretary of homeland security, May was best known as a critic of unchecked immigration.
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At the same time, May’s ministry was cracking down on political extremism in a fairly quiet way. Richard Spencer, a self-described “identitarian” who leads a white nationalist think tank in Northern Virginia, received an envelope last month marked “On Her Britannic Majesty’s Service.”
“I thought, perhaps, that the queen was inviting me to tea,” he joked.
Instead, he learned that the Home Office had reviewed speeches he’d given about the need for “an ethno-state” where “whites could reach the stars,” a goal hampered by mass immigration. ...
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