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| '''Turning Point UK''' ('''TPUK''') is a British, nonprofit ] youth campaign group<ref name="telegraph">{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2019/02/07/backlash-against-turning-point-uk-rather-proves-point-hard-conservative/|title=The backlash against Turning Point UK rather proves its point; it's hard being a conservative on campus|last=Grant|first=Madeline|date=7 February 2019|work=]|access-date=7 February 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> aimed at challenging perceived ] political ideology dominant in UK schools, colleges and universities.<ref>{{cite web|last=Kindred|first=Alahna|title=''NO TURNING BACK What is Turning Point UK, does Jacob Rees-Mogg support it and why are they controversial?''|url=https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8350984/what-is-turning-point-uk-does-jacob-rees-mogg-support-it-and-why-are-they-controversial/|date=4 February 2019|work=]|accessdate=5 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|accessdate=5 February 2019|title=Turning Point UK May Make Politics On Campus More Bitter And Polarised Than Ever Before|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/turning-point-uk_uk_5c5610dce4b023e1bae3de0e|date=5 February 2019|website=]}}</ref><ref name="cherwell-merwe">{{cite news|first=Ben|last=van der Merwe|accessdate=5 February 2019|title=Right-wing dark money comes to Oxford student politics|url=http://cherwell.org/2019/01/28/right-wing-dark-money-comes-to-oxford-student-politics/|newspaper=]|date=28 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|accessdate=4 February 2019|title=The wrong Turning Point|url=https://spectator.us/wrong-turning-point/|date=4 February 2019|website=]}}</ref><ref name="newstatesman">{{cite web|accessdate=4 February 2019|title=The UK launch of right-wing youth group Turning Point is going about as well as expected|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2019/02/turning-point-uks-launch-memes-going-brilliantly-bad-you-expected|work=]}}</ref> It is an offshoot of the American organisation ].<ref name="telegraph"/><ref name="guardian-walker">{{cite news|first1=Peter|last1=Walker|accessdate=4 February 2019|title=Tory MPs back youth group with apparent links to US far right|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/feb/04/tory-mps-back-rightwing-youth-group-turning-point-uk|newspaper=]|date=4 February 2019|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref><ref name="independent-dearden">{{cite web|accessdate=2 February 2019|title=Tory MPs voice support for new UK branch of ‘sinister’ right-wing US group|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/turning-point-uk-jacob-rees-mogg-conservative-right-wing-group-launch-tory-a8762351.html|date=4 February 2019|website=]}}</ref> | |||
| Turning Point UK's chairman is George Farmer<ref name="guardian-walker"/><ref name="independent-dearden"/> and it employs several staff.<ref name="cherwell-merwe"/> | |||
| The organisation claims it has chapters at the universities of Sussex, Oxford, St Andrews, York, Warwick and Nottingham as well as King’s College London, University College London, the London School of Economics and University of the Arts London.<ref name="cherwell-merwe" /> Like its US parent Turning Point USA, it does not disclose the identities of its donors.<ref name="cherwell-merwe" /> | |||
| The group was launched in December 2018<ref name="cherwell-merwe"/> by Turning Point USA leaders ] and ] (fiancee of George Farmer)<ref name="thinkprogress" /><ref name="dailydot">{{cite web|accessdate=5 February 2019|title=Turning Point's UK launch beset by memes|url=https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/turning-point-uk-memes/|date=4 February 2019|website=]}}</ref> at the ] in London.<ref name="cherwell-merwe" /> Among those attending the event were ], ] and ].<ref name="cherwell-merwe" /><ref name="independent-dearden" /> MPs including ] and ] tweeted supportive messages for Turning Point UK in February 2019.<ref name="guardian-walker" /><ref name="independent-dearden" /> On its launch in February 2019 the organisation was marked for criticism by left-wing British newspapers and their supporters on social media;<ref name="independent-dearden"/><ref name=thinkprogress>{{cite web|last=Barnes|first=Luke|title=''Turning Point USA launches British chapter to rocky reception''|url=https://thinkprogress.org/pro-trump-student-group-turning-point-usa-is-branching-out-to-the-uk-5d6abe71384c/|date=4 February 2019|work=]|accessdate=5 February 2019}}</ref> On the same day the formal launch of its Twitter account was sabotaged by multiple parody accounts created by a ‘left-leaning student’ calling himself ‘Skeptical Seventh’. <ref name="dailydot" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.indy100.com/article/turning-point-uk-right-wing-conservative-twitter-charlie-kirk-8762621|work=The Independent|title=Turning Point's UK Twitter launch has gotten off to an exceedingly bad start|first=Lowenna|last=Waters|date=5 February 2019|accessdate=6 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Gian|last=Volpicelli|title=How an army of farcical fakes ruined Turning Point UK's big day|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-an-army-of-fakes-took-on-rightwing-organisation-turning-point-uk|work=]|date=6 February 2019|access-date=7 February 2019|issn=1357-0978|via=www.wired.co.uk}}</ref> There were also a protest from ] the charity over confusion about similarities between the two names. <ref>{{cite news |title=The battle over Britain's newest student movement |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-47159137 |accessdate=9 February 2019 |work=BBC News |date=9 February 2019}}</ref> | |||
| Labour MP ] has described the organisation as evidence that “sinister forces are taking hold of our country” and that the Tory party “openly promotes hard-right, xenophobic bile”.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/right-wing-student-leader-charlie-kirk-will-tour-uk-universities-h223d32rd|title=Right-wing student leader Charlie Kirk will tour UK universities|last=Brown|first=David|date=6 February 2019|work=]|accessdate=6 February 2019|language=en|issn=0140-0460}}{{paywall}}</ref> | |||
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| *{{Official website|www.tpointuk.co.uk}} | |||
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