Laurence Fox is DROPPED by his acting agent in phone call but insists he has not done anything that ‘could be deemed racist’ and calls for ‘common sense’
- Laurence Fox said his agent ‘let me go on the phone’ in a Tweet yesterday night
- He said the the phone call reaffirmed ‘exactly why I am doing what I’m doing’
- Last month, Fox embroiled in Twitter spats with people who called him ‘racist’
- In September Fox launched The Reclaim Party to ‘reclaim British values’
Laurence Fox has revealed that he was dropped by his acting agent in a phone call but insisted he has not done anything that ‘could be deemed racist’.
The controversial Lewis star said on Twitter that his agent ‘let me go on the phone’ in a move which reaffirmed ‘exactly why I am doing what I’m doing’.
Last month, Fox was embroiled in bitter Twitter spats with a number of people who called him a ‘racist’. He replied making unsubstantiated claims that they were ‘paedophiles’. He later deleted the tweets.
Two people who Fox accused – deputy chair of LGBT charity Stonewall Simon Blake and Drag Race UK star Crystal – then announced they would sue him for defamation.
One month earlier, Fox launched The Reclaim Party – to fight for freedom of speech, ‘reclaim British values’ and challenge what he regards as a ‘culture war’ taking place in Britain.
In his Tweet on Thursday evening, Fox said: ‘I want to thank my acting agent who let me go on the phone just now for reaffirming exactly why I am doing what I’m doing.
‘Still waiting for a single example of anything I’ve ever said or done that could ever be deemed racist. We will reclaim freedom, fairness and common sense.’
Laurence Fox has revealed that he was dropped by his acting agent in a phone call but insisted he has not done anything that ‘could be deemed racist’
The controversial Lewis star said his agent ‘let me go on the phone’ in a move he said reaffirmed ‘exactly why I am doing what I’m doing’
The actor, 42, has received substantial sums from former Tory donors and hopes to stand dozens of candidates across the UK.
The Lewis star says he wants to provide a movement for people who are ‘tired of being told that we represent the very thing we have, in history, stood together against’.
Fox first shot to prominence in January thanks to an appearance as a panellist on BBC1’s Question Time.
During the programme, he disputed the claim that the Duchess of Sussex had been treated in a ‘racist’ way by the British press.
Fox was involved in a heated debate with the academic and ethnicity lecturer Rachel Boyle after she called him ‘a white privileged male’ on BBC’s Question Time.
The 41-year-old accused Ms Boyle, an academic at Edge Hill University on Merseyside, of ‘being racist’ after she called him ‘a white privileged male’ for denying the Duchess of Sussex was hounded from Britain for being mixed-race.
As the row continued the following day he quoted Martin Luther King’s 1963 ‘I have a dream’ speech about living in a nation where children ‘will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character’.
He said: ‘This is the position I took last night and I live by in life. If you can improve on it, I’m all ears. Or you can keep screeching ”Racist!” at me and I can carry on having a jolly good giggle at your expense. The tide is turning’.
Deputy chair of LGBT charity Stonewall Simon Blake and Drag Race UK star Crystal announced they would sue Fox for defamation after he called them ‘paedophiles’ in an unsubstantiated Twitter rant
In October, Fox accused Sainsbury’s of ‘promoting racial segregation and discrimination’ and promised to boycott the supermarket chain after it promoted Black History Month.
As he faced a backlash for his views, he clapped back at people ‘falsely accusing him of racism’ by retaliating with unsubstantiated slurs calling them ‘paedophiles’ in Tweets which have since been deleted.
Fox’s Reclaim party so far has three objectives, which include protecting free speech, reforming publicly funded institutions, and preserving and celebrating Britain’s cultural history.
Backers include former Tory donor Jeremy Hosking.
The Lewis star says he wants to provide a movement for people who are ‘tired of being told that we represent the very thing we have, in history, stood together against’.