Hesketh fought the November byelection while standing for the fascist Union Movement (UM) of Sir Oswald Mosley – an admirer of Mussolini – who was interned during the second world war for his extreme views. “The union movement didn’t really do a great deal after the second world war. Max Mosley, a former boss of the organisation that runs Formula One, is the bete noire of the country’s most powerful newspaper publishers. “There was a clear political context to what’s happened over the last few days and it’s disappointing that politicians are interfering in press regulation once again,” Heawood said. But despite the government’s climbdown the internecine war over press regulation appears far from over.

Source: The Guardian March 04, 2018 00:00 UTC