Tommy Robinson

ABOUT TOMMY ROBINSON

Known for having co-founded and led the English Defence League (EDL) street protest movement. He served as leader between 2009 and 2013.

He was awarded a scholarship to study aircraft engineering at Luton Airport in 2003. He first joined the British National Party in 2004.

He served as co-vice chairman of the British Freedom Party for a time in 2012. He delivered a controversial speech to the Oxford Union debating club in November 2014.

His birth name is Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon. He married in 2011, and has fathered three children.

He has been interviewed about his work with the EDL by Andrew Neil .