Most of the hundreds of men clad in sinister balaclavas and black outfits on the Dover anti-migrant protest were anonymous, but one well-built man stood out from the mob.
His name is Daniel Thomas, 37, founder of Patriot Platform, who describes his army of protesters as ‘working class men who are bricklayers, roofers and carpenters who build the house you live in, the roads you drive on’.
Yet Daniel Thomas’s solidly middle-class upbringing appears to be very different from the men he claims to represent.
He attended a private school in Hampshire and his father Russell was a university-educated skiing enthusiast who retired
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