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London’s minorities fearful after post-Brexit attacks

– ‘Time for you to leave’ –

John O’Connell, from anti-racism group Far Right Watch, said they had recorded over 90 incidents in the last three days, ranging from “verbal abuse up to physical violence.”

Finance minister George Osborne called for “unity of spirit and purpose”, and urged Britons to “condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.”

“Britain is an open and tolerant country and I will fight with everything I have to keep it so,” he said.

Conservative politician Sayeeda Warsi, who made a high profile switch to the Remain camp ahead of last Thursday’s referendum, blamed the highly-charged campaign.

“Long after the political bus moves on we leave problems on our street,” she told Sky News.

“I’ve spent most of the weekend talking to organisations, individuals and activists… who monitor hate crime, and they have shown some really disturbing early results from people being stopped in the street and saying ‘look, we voted Leave, it’s time for you to leave’.”

Pro-Brexit tabloid The Sun came under fire after running a story with the headline “Streets full of Polish shops, kids not speaking English…but Union Jacks now flying high again”.

Shashank Joshi, Senior Fellow at think-tank RUSI, called the article “absolutely vile”, claiming that the paper will “bear some responsibility for the racist incidents and assaults this encourages.”

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