Boris Johnson's dogwhistle racist politics are dangerous - when he describes black people as "piccanninnies" with "watermelon smiles", or Muslim women as looking like "bank robbers", or when he congratulates openly antisemitic leaders such as Victor Orbàn, he is giving legitimacy to every racist, every Islamophobe, every antisemite, and emboldening those who want to enact hate crimes.

On 16 May 2020, for UN Anti Racism Day, Stand Up To Racism is organising major marches in London and Glasgow as part of a global #WorldAgainstRacism coordination where demonstrations will take place all over the world, including across the US and Europe where the far right is on the rise.