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Jake Lynch says extra-parliamentary mobilisation on the left has always been far stronger

What can any government do, John Harris wonders, to counter extra-parliamentary mobilisation, through social media and on the streets, from the right (Robinson and Farage’s ‘civil war’ narrative is warping voters’ minds. How is any government supposed to counter it?, 14 September).

Your report of the nationalist rally in London the previous day estimated the numbers present at 110,000. As someone who attended the capital’s three largest demonstrations – against South African apartheid in 1985, against the Iraq war in 2003 (1.5 million), and for a second referendum on EU membership in 2019 (around 1 million) – I can testify that extra-parliamentary mobilisation on the left has always been far stronger.