Robinson was involved with the group United Peoples of Luton, formed in response to a March 2009 protest against Royal Anglian Regiment troops returning from the Afghan War being attacked by the Islamist groups Al-Muhajiroun and Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah. Robinson said, "I joined, I saw what it was about, it was not for me." When questioned about this by the journalist Andrew Neil in June 2013, he said that he had left after one year, stating he did not know Nick Griffin was in the National Front and did not know that non-whites could not join the organisation. Robinson joined the far-right and fascist political party British National Party (BNP), then led by Nick Griffin, in 2004. Īccording to Robinson, after leaving school he applied to study aircraft engineering at Luton Airport: "I got an apprenticeship 600 people applied for, and they took four people on." He qualified in 2003 after five years of study, but then lost his job when he was convicted of assaulting an off-duty police officer in a drunken argument. His mother, who worked at a local bakery, remarried when Robinson was still young his stepfather, Thomas Lennon, worked at the Vauxhall car plant in Luton. In an interview with Victoria Derbyshire on BBC Radio Five live in 2010, he said that his parents "were Irish immigrants to this country".
Robinson was born Stephen Christopher Yaxley in Luton, England. Robinson has also used the names Andrew McMaster, Paul Harris, Wayne King, and Stephen Lennon. The nom de guerre successfully hid Robinson's identity as Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and his criminal history, until the connection was uncovered in July 2010 by Searchlight magazine. The name Tommy Robinson is a pseudonym taken from a prominent member of the "Men In Gear" (MIG) football hooligan crew, which follows Luton Town Football Club. Robinson's birth name is Stephen Christopher Yaxley. 4.2 Almondbury Community School assault and legal action against Robinson.
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On 22 July 2021, Robinson was found to have libelled a 15-year-old refugee at a school in Huddersfield and was ordered to pay £100,000 plus legal costs, although Robinson had filed for bankruptcy in March 2021. He was released from prison on 13 September 2019 after serving 9 weeks. On 5 July 2019, Robinson was again found guilty of contempt of court at the retrial and was committed at the Old Bailey to nine months in prison on 11 July․ Before his sentencing, Robinson appeared on InfoWars and appealed for political asylum in the United States. On 1 August 2018, due to procedural errors, he was released on bail pending a new hearing of the case. He has served at least four separate terms of imprisonment: in 2005 for assault, in 2012 for using false travel documents to enter the United States, in 2014 for mortgage fraud, and, in May 2018, Robinson was committed to prison for 13 months for contempt of court after publishing a Facebook Live video of defendants entering a law court, contravening a court order that disallows reporting on such trials while proceedings are ongoing. He has been committed to prison for contempt of court.
His convictions include for violence, stalking, financial and immigration frauds, drug possession and public order offences. Robinson has a long-standing criminal record. From 2017 to 2018, Robinson wrote for and appeared in online videos for Rebel News, a Canadian far-right political website. He continued as an activist, and in 2015 became involved with the development of Pegida UK, a now defunct British chapter of the German-based far-right organisation Pegida. Robinson led the EDL from 2009 until 8 October 2013. For a short time in 2012, he was joint vice-chairman of the British Freedom Party (BFP). He was a member of the neo-fascist and white nationalist British National Party (BNP) from 2004 to 2005.
Robinson has been active in far-right politics for many years. He is the co-founder and former leader of the English Defence League, and later served as a political advisor to former UKIP leader Gerard Batten. Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (born 27 November 1982), better known as Tommy Robinson, is a British far-right, anti-Islam activist, and convicted criminal on multiple counts of violence and fraud as well as other crimes.
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