The first serious breach came in Austria at the turn of the millennium, when the far-right Freedom…

There are no guardrails now on the right of UK politics: where Restore Britain goes, others will follow | Owen Jones > The first serious breach came in Austria at the turn of the millennium, when the far-right Freedom Party entered a coalition government. Then there were mass protests and EU sanctions. Since then far-right parties have been normalised across Europe with no such response. When Germany’s centre-right Christian Democrats passed an anti-migrant resolution last year with the support of the far-right AfD, the Social Democratic leader told him: “You have broken this basic consensus of our republic.” > The Dutch far-right was the largest party in a coalition government until it collapsed last year. In Spain, the mainstream conservatives strike regional coalitions with the far-right Vox. > Surviving centre-right parties have increasingly adopted the anti-migrant agendas of their more extreme rivals. Others have simply been taken over by the far-right altogether: notably the US Republicans. The result is the same: the old consensus about what lies beyond the pale has collapsed.