‘They told me to go back to my country’: Inside the UK’s wave of racism

Manchester, United Kingdom – Agnes Peters, a care worker from Manchester, vividly remembers the moment she was targeted for her race.“I was coming back from work,” she said, her voice low from a table in a Manchester library’s cafe. “I was in my uniform … and they told me to go back to my country, used racial slurs against me and threw things from the car as they drove slowly past,” she said. “People were watching and recording.”Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4UK gov’t condemns masked anti-immigrant protesters blocking Dover portlist 2 of 4Reform UK says Britain is broken. Birmingham tells another storylist 3 of 4Second crypto billionaire donates record $49m to far-right Reform UKlist 4 of 4‘Rage-bait’ failed: Stockholm suburb celebrates far right’s election lossesend of listOnly one bystander reproached the abusers for “throwing stones” at Peters, she said, remembering the incident last year.Racists have become emboldened, she said, describing the rise of xenophobia in the United Kingdom.“They feel like if they come out in public and embarrass me, a Black person, it gives them supporters,” she said. “They’re no longer sitting on the fence. They’re out there actively ...