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Laurence Fox is ‘intelligent racist’, High Court libel trial told

Source: PA Wire

Laurence Fox is “an intelligent racist with an agenda”, the High Court has been told on the first day of his libel battle with two people he called paedophiles on social media.

The actor-turned-politician is being sued by former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and drag artist Crystal over a row on Twitter, now known as X, in October 2020.

Mr Fox called Mr Blake and the former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant, whose real name is Colin Seymour, “paedophiles” in an exchange about a decision by Sainsbury’s

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