Alex Davies: The politics student who founded Britain’s first neo-Nazi terrorist group after becoming ‘politically homeless’

After National Action was banned in 2016, Davies founded a new neo-Nazi group to continue working for a ‘white Britain,’ writes Lizzie Dearden

Alex Davies speaking at a 2016 National Action demonstration in York, in front of a banner containing the words ‘Refugees not welcome: Hitler was right.’ (CTPWM)

Alex Davies was an 18-year-old student about to embark on his first year at university when he started National Action.

In three years, it would become the first neo-Nazi terrorist group ever banned in the UK, after followers stockpiled weapons, built a pipe bomb and even plotted to murder an MP.

Davies told his trial at Winchester Crown Court that fomenting a race war was not his intention, but declared himself a national socialist and said he wanted to create a “nationalist Britain, which would be a white Britain”.