Who is Tommy Robinson? The Karl Stefanovic guest who may have cost Australia’s famed TV host his job

Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is an anti-Islamic, far-right political activist well known in the UK and Europe

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The man who calls himself Tommy Robinson has roared into prominence in Australia after the morning TV mainstay Karl Stefanovic posted an interview with Robinson for his podcast.

The fallout was swift. Nine Entertainment, Australia’s largest locally owned media empire, is widely expected to sever ties with Stefanovic, and he will not appear on a radio show with Eddie McGuire on Friday.

Robinson’s politics are well known in the UK and Europe, but he has a far lower profile here. So who is the man whose very presence in an interview may have cost Australia’s highest-paid TV personality his job?