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From Oswald Mosley to nazi King Edward VIII
PETER FROST takes a look back on the dark history of fascism in Britain between the wars
Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, surrounded by police after speaking in public for the first time since the war at the Memorial Hall in Farringdon, 1947
The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
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MAT COWARD introduces some of the electoral oddballs of the political fringe who remain one of the liveliest features of British democracy, despite efforts to abolish them
by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family
AFTER 1920, unemployment in Britain never dropped below one million for the whole of the inter-war years. It was a time of little hope for the working class.
Oswald Mosley declared he had the answer. He had begun his career as a young maverick Tory MP, but when the Conservative Party threatened to expel him, he left it first as an independent and then as a Labour MP.
Finding no support for his fascist ideas, Mosley resigned from Parliament to start the New Party. The handful of MPs he took with him soon deserted what was obviously a sinking ship and his New Party soon sank.
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