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The right-wing Leave campaign promoted anti-immigrant sentiment to achieve its political goals. The fallout has been the legitimisation of bare-faced racism. Immediately post-Brexit there has been a 57% rise in racist incidents. Those who swallowed right-wing scapegoating of immigrants for problems caused by austerity and mismanagement feel they have been given a platform to publicly abuse people.
