Top Tories and Trump helped create ‘overt racism’ in UK, says Labour minister

Toxic discourse' against asylum seekers gave yellow flashing light' to racists, Angela Eagle tells the Labour conference

Donald Trump and senior Conservatives have helped to create a space for overt racism" which has spilled on to British streets, a home office minister has told Labour delegates.

Angela Eagle, the minister in charge of irregular migration, said the Republican presidential candidate had helped to create vitriol" against migrants through social media.