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LABOUR will not accept further donations from former motor-racing boss Max Mosley after a 1961 campaign leaflet he published emerged that warned: “Coloured immigration threatens your children's health.”
The pamphlet, supporting a by-election candidate for the fascist Union Movement, led by Mr Mosley’s father Oswald, was found in historical archives in Salford. It states it was “published by Max Mosley.”
A senior Labour source described the views expressed as “repugnant” and said neither deputy leader Tom Watson, who has received more than £500,000 in donations from Mr Mosley, nor the party would take any further payments from him.
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
FRANCIS BECKETT introduces his new play that aims to give its audience a taste of what a far-right triumph would be