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In 2010, he quit Congress and helped launch an offshoot of the Heritage Foundation think tank called Heritage Action for America, which was tasked with strong-arming congressional Republicans to act more conservatively.

In 1963-64, the Kennedy-Johnson administration also orchestrated an elaborate initiative to monitor hostile right-wing radio broadcasters through an offshoot of the Democratic National Committee.

The Patriotic Millionaires, the British offshoot of a US organisation, is trying to get UK politicians to back a 2% tax on assets over £10m.

There have been previous anti-asylum seeker protests in Scotland – one was held in Ayr in 2015, called by the Scottish Defence League, an offshoot of the English Defence League.

There is also a population of Druze, whose religion is an offshoot of Shia Islam with its own unique identity and beliefs, in Israel.