Overview
- National outlets report that Bash Back urged supporters to form covert cells and circulated an action guide on planning criminal damage and evading detection.
- The group has reportedly threatened senior figures including the prime minister and Health Secretary Wes Streeting after claiming a July vandalism at Streeting’s Ilford North office.
- Journalists notified the Metropolitan Police, and a government spokesman said authorities would pursue anyone targeting politicians with the full force of the law.
- Free Speech Union founder Lord Young commissioned a security briefing that, according to reports, suggests intelligence services are monitoring the activist network.
- Reported potential targets include the Free Speech Union and Sex Matters, and the group describes itself as a trans-led direct-action project focused on transgender liberation.