"Mr Ashcroft was a young National Front (NF) member in the 1990s but left after an influential secret agent diverted him from the group. He warned that far-right and neo-Nazi organisations had become a resurgent force in the digital age, illustrated in November 2018 by the convictions of six people belonging to banned terror group National Action (NA). Far more overtly racist, white supremacist and anti-Semitic material can also be found on YouTube, including a video named 'hail C18' – referring to banned terror group Combat 18 – and others using military symbols and imagery associated with the Nazis short of the swastika. The following month, a report by the US-based Counter Extremism Project found 'white supremacist movements continue to thrive.' The study, which took in far-right activities in Birmingham as part of the research, found Combat 18 alone had a presence in at least 18 countries."