English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson has won the endorsement of a Fox News host (Picture: Reuters)

English Defence League leader Tommy Robinson has won the endorsement of a Fox News host who said he ‘had his back’ and thought it ‘great’ what the head of the far-right group was doing.

Brian Kilmeade was interviewing Mr Robinson for his show on Fox radio and welcomed him with the words: ‘When I saw him interviewed and heard about his organisation I just had to talk to him.’

During the 15-minute discussion Robinson told him he formed the EDL because of the government and police’s inability to tackle radical Islam.

He claimed ‘there was a two-tier policing system’ and ‘two-tier funding system’ in which Islam is treated as ‘part of the race’.




Mr Robinson then spoke about the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby and the plot by Islamists to attack an EDL rally in Dewsbury.

He said: ‘I’m talking to listeners in America. What’s happening here is going to happen there. It’s the same Islam.’

Mr Robinson then complained the media in the UK don’t use the words ‘Jihad or Muslim or Islam’.

Brian Kilmeade – ‘we got your back’ (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

At the end of the interview, Kilmeade told Robinson: ‘Well Tommy, we got your back, and we’ll definitely look to keep in touch and I really think it’s a very – it’s great what you’re doing.’

After the interview, Kilmeade tweeted: ‘Englishdefenseleague.org [sic] check out Tommy Robinson and his mission to rid brit ian [sic] of muslim extremists @foxandfriends.’

Earlier this week the BBC was criticised for an interview with Mr Robinson on Radio 4’s Today programme.

Mr Kilmeade, 49, ran into trouble in 2009 during a discussion about a Swedish and Finnish study which found that married people were less susceptible to Alzheimer’s disease than unmarried ones.

He said this didn’t apply to Americans as ‘we keep marrying other species and other ethnicities…Swedes have pure genes…in America we marry everybody’.

The presenter later apologised saying: ‘I made comments that were offensive to many people.

‘That was not my intention, and looking back at those comments I realise they were inappropriate. For that I sincerely apologise.

‘America [is a] huge melting pot, and that is what makes us such a great country.’