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Britain is hugely divided across cultural, age and education lines, a major study of national attitudes has concluded, warning of a potential rise in far-right and anti-Islam sentiments unless politicians tackle long-standing disaffections behind the Brexit vote.
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On attitudes specifically to Islam, however, the report found that while these softened between 2011 and 2016, this process then reversed, something it put down the series of terror attacks in the UK in 2017 and media coverage of sexual grooming gangs in places such as Rotherham.
The most recent polling by the group, of more than 10,000 people in July, found 32% of people believed there were Muslim "no-go areas" in Britain governed by Sharia law, a view endorsed by 49% of leave voters in the Brexit referendum.