No!

With all due respect BBC (And that due respect - is none), he is not a radical.

William Wilberforce was a radical, leading the call to abolish the vile slave trade. Winston Churchill was a radical - rejecting the easy way of an alliance with Germany, instead to take on what at the time was pretty much the whole world as an enemy.
The Tolpuddle Martyrs were radicals, wanting to improve their lives by forming a labour association - and with the results they lost.

This "person" isn't fit to lick the ground they once walked on. He is no radical