Laurence Fox has been called “an intelligent racist with an agenda” who blacked up and aimed foul-mouthed abuse at ethnic minorities for attention, at the start of his High Court libel trial. The actor-turned-activist and politician is being sued by former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and drag artist Crystal over a 2020 row on Twitter.
Mr Fox, the former star of TV’s Lewis who now heads the Reclaim Party, called for a boycott of Sainsbury’s when the supermarket giant announced its support for Black History Month in October 2020.
