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The 17-year-old British Conservative activist known online as “Young Bob” says he received death threats and violent attacks while championing the cause of Turning Point UK.
Thomas Moffitt's latest ordeal unfolded on November 20 at the London School of Economics (LSE) after he was invited by university officials. Conservative Society discuss the need for socially conservative values in Britain.
“We were invited to talk about socially conservative values. For about an hour, people were taking pictures with us, some arguing sincerely and in good faith,” Moffitt told Fox News Digital.
“Then, after we had some decent discussions, we had a bunch of masked activists who, firstly, tried to steal our materials, and then secondly, tried to protest with a megaphone.”
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Conservative activist Thomas Moffitt faced protests and theft of materials at the London School of Economics while discussing the social conservative values of Turning Point UK. (Thomas Moffitt/TPUK)
He said angry protesters also mocked the death Charlie Kirkfounder of Turning Point USA and a central figure in conservative youth politics, attempting to remove the group from campus.
“In their eyes, it must have been seen as an attempt to perform some kind of ritual of humiliation,” Moffitt added. “We're trying to continue fight Charlie here in the UK”
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He called the protesters' chants “a very demoralizing way of essentially making fun of the death of a great man.”
Kirk, who founded TPUSA in 2012 to mobilize young conservatives, was shot and killed earlier this year while speaking to an audience on the Utah Valley University campus in Orem, Utah.
Over time, Kirk's work inspired international chapters, including Britain's turning point and “Australia's Turning Point”.
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Charlie Kirk has previously performed at the Oxford Union. (Chris Harris/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images))
Kirk has previously spoken in the UK at events such as the Oxford Union, encouraging conservative student activism abroad.
Moffitt, who has been part of Turning Point UK for two years, said violence and intimidation had accompanied the chapter's activism from the very beginning.
“Throughout the entire reporting period for TPUK and implementation advocates abortiontransgenderism and migration, bottles of urine were thrown at us, glue was thrown at us, cans of beans were thrown in my face,” he said.
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Thomas Moffitt says that in Speakers' Corner in London, which is a free marketplace of ideas, a man with a knife threatened to kill him. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)
“Several times in Speakers' Corner, which is sort of a free marketplace of ideas where you discuss religion and politics, a man had a knife and threatened to kill me… I was physically attacked, people hit me in the head, people on social media threatened to kill me.”
Despite the hostility, Moffitt remains determined to expand Kirk's movement.
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Erica Kirk, widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, speaks during a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi on October 29, 2025 in Oxford, Mississippi. (Jonathan Ernst-Poole/Getty Images)
“We saw that we could actually start to import what the US has been very successful in terms of preaching and evangelizing young people into conservatism,” he said.
“I think we should take this momentum and opportunity and kind of grow TPUK,” he continued, saying Kirk would “love to see the format that he made popular in the UK.”
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“We must continue to fight no matter what country we are in, because the West needs conservatism,” he added.
“If I… ever had the chance to talk to Erica [Kirk]I would first of all express my great admiration to her husband for the formula and ideas that I [drew] great inspiration,” Moffitt said.
