A hunt for the assets of Tommy Robinson has begun after he declared himself bankrupt this week.
The founder of the English Defence League, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and who was one of Britains best-funded activists, filed for bankruptcy before a trial in which he is being sued for libel by a Syrian refugee.
Robinson once had more than a million social media followers and was able to raise huge amounts with regular appeals for donations. He drove expensive cars, was pictured wearing clothes and watches worth thousands of pounds and had cosmetic dentistry.
In 2018 he claimed to have received 350,000 of donations in two weeks and was said to have banked more than 2 million. He has suffered a loss of
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