Police Probe Post-Brexit Attacks On Poles

Immigrants are being told to go home and sent hate mail as evidence mounts that post-Brexit racism has hit the streets of the UK.

Former Conservative chairwoman Baroness Warsi told Sky News that race hate crime organisations had reported some "disturbing early results".

And she blamed the "divisive and xenophobic" leave campaigning during the EU referendum.

Prime Minister David Cameron's spokeswoman said on Monday that he wanted to be "absolutely clear that this Government will not accept intolerance".

Boris Johnson, the leading figurehead of the Leave campaign, also sought to address EU migrants' fears and concerns.

He said: "There has been a lot of confusion over the weekend - the status of people living in this country. It is absolutely clear that people from other European countries who are living here, have their rights protected.

"All that people want to see is a system that's fair, impartial and humane to all people coming from around the world."

Police are investigating a report of an "alleged racially-motivated" attack on a Polish community building in London and hate notes posted through the doors of Polish residents in Cambridgeshire.

There were also scores of accounts of post-Brexit racism being posted on social media.

One woman tweeted how her daughter saw a Muslim woman surrounded by a gang of men in Birmingham telling her to "get out, we voted leave".

Speaking to Sky's Dermot Murnaghan, Lady Warsi said she wanted leave campaigners "to come out and say that the campaigning was divisive and was xenophobic and give a commitment that future campaigning and the way that they intend to run this country will be united, will make people from all backgrounds feel like they belong".

She added: "I've spent most of the weekend talking to organisations, individuals and activists who work in the area of race hate crime, who monitor hate crime, and they have shown some really disturbing early results from people being stopped in the street and saying look, we voted Leave, it's time for you to leave.

"And they are saying this to individuals and families who have been here for three, four, five generations. The atmosphere on the street is not good."

A Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed there had been graffiti sprayed on the doors of the Polish Social and Cultural Association in Hammersmith, west London, on Sunday morning.

A spokesman said: "We were informed of an incident of alleged racially-motivated criminal damage to a building in King Street.

"Officers attended and enquiries are ongoing."

While Cambridgeshire Police were investigating laminated cards being posted through doors in Huntingdon carrying the message: "Leave the EU - no more Polish vermin."

During campaigning Nigel Farage was roundly lambasted for his "Breaking Point" poster showing a snaking queue of refugees in Europe, saying the UK needed to take control of its borders.

It prompted Lady Warsi to announce her support for the remain campaign having previously backed leave.