MOSLEY'S RACIST LEAFLET
Former F1 boss Max Mosley admitted an election leaflet with his name on it was ‘probably racist’
The far-right election leaflet warned of the dangers of 'coloured immigration'
FORMER F1 boss Max Mosley was last night forced to admit a far-right election leaflet published with his name on was racist.
He backtracked over the pamphlet, which warns of the dangers of “coloured immigration”, as he was questioned live on TV.
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At first, he denied it was genuine or racist then conceded it “probably is racist”.
The millionaire son of 1930s fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley now faces serious questions over evidence he gave in his infamous 2008 orgy trial against the News of the World.
He told the court he could not remember the leaflet and suggested it was “absolute nonsense” to suggest such a pamphlet was published.
The explosive encounter came after the leaflet was unearthed in Manchester archives.
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It was produced for far-right Union Movement candidate Walter Hesketh for whom Mr Mosley, now an anti-Press campaigner, was the election agent at the time.
It calls for Jamaican immigrants to be sent home and warns “coloured immigration threatens your children’s health” by spreading diseases like leprosy, VD and TB”.
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Mr Mosley, 77, challenged Channel 4 presenter Cathy Newman after she asked if he had lied at the trial.
He said: “I wouldn’t dream of lying under oath. That’s a very offensive suggestion which you shouldn’t make.
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"I’m not even sure it’s genuine but, if it is genuine, it doesn’t reflect my views today.
“I have never been a racist, I am not a racist, never will be a racist.”
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Asked whether he would apologise to Manchester’s West Indian community, he said: “I have no reason to apologise to anyone.”
He has given £500,000-plus to Labour Deputy Leader Tom Watson, another backer of Press regulation.
Mr Watson said: “The views expressed by Max as a young man are not the views he holds now.”
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