Tommy Robinson: Far right campaigner has relocated his family to Spain after safety concerns

The Brexit advocate has announced that do to the quarantine rules, he will not be able to make it back to the demonstration in London due to take place this weekend.

Tommy Robinson, has announced that he has relocated his family to Spain after safety concerns due to an alleged arson incident.

Mr Robinson is a far right campaigner and co-founder of the English Defense League.

In an online video, Mr Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, stated: “There’s something I haven’t told everyone… I had an incident quite a few weeks ago with an arson … I do have the video of everything but it was targeting my property, well not against my property, against my wife’s property and at that point we left the country straight away.

Tommy Robinson: Far right campaigner has relocated his family to Spain after safety concerns

“And I’m looking at relocating my family which is pretty hard to do and especially with Covid because I couldn’t even get a hotel. Couldn’t even find a hotel.

“Obviously my wife has had enough of everything.

“Someone gave us somewhere to stay so we left the country.”

Mr Robinson also said that he would be unable to return for the demonstration that his organisation Heart of Oak was hosting due to the new quarantine rules regarding people travelling to the UK from Spain.

The UK Government and the Scottish Government have imposed a two week quarantine on anybody travelling from Spain due to a rise in positive coronavirus cases in the country.

In the video, Mr Robinson claimed that the arson incident happened after “all the BLM stuff” adding “I think I know who it was.”

He did not add any more details about the alleged event.

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