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Hope Not Hate spy played key role in stopping far-right plot to murder MP

Robbie Mullen was told by Jack Renshaw of his plan to stab Labour’s Rosie Cooper
Robbie Mullen spent months undercover in far-right racist group National Action. Photograph: Hope Not Hate

Details have emerged of how a plot by a neo-Nazi to kill an MP and a serving police officer was foiled by an anti-racism charity that had infiltrated the group.

Just over a year had passed since the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox when Robbie Mullen joined comrades from Britain’s only banned neo-Nazi group in the Friar Penketh, a bustling Wetherspoons pub in Warrington town centre.

But as the drizzly evening in the summer of 2017 wore on, Mullen and others from the group known as National Action were joined by Jack Renshaw, a 22-year-old former

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