Regulator behind bid to muzzle Press is bankrolled by Britain’s most notorious fascist Oswald Mosley
The funding comes from money inherited from Oswald Mosley
A REGULATOR aiming to muzzle the press is bankrolled with money from Britain’s most notorious fascist.
The cash was inherited from 1930s far-Right leader Oswald Mosley.
Until yesterday, funding for Impress was only known to have come mostly from his millionaire son Max Mosley.
But in heated questioning, he agreed for the first time that cash for the body, which calls itself the UK’s first truly independent press regulator, came from his late fascist dad.
The former F1 boss said: “The money comes from a family trust.
“It’s family money.
“Ages ago my father had a trust in Liechtenstein but all the money now is in the UK.”
He was then pressed by Andrew Neil on BBC1’s Sunday Politics show to clarify the regulator was financed with money put together by his father, who led the British Union of Fascists.
He admitted: “Yes. I mean, not put together by my father.
“My father inherited from his father and from his father.”
He added: “Where the money comes from doesn’t matter.”
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State-backed Impress, set up by him after a newspaper sting involving images of him at a sex party, was officially recognised in October.
But every national newspaper has refused to voluntarily join the organisation.
