Laurence Fox: ‘People need immunity from the virus of wokery’

Laurence Fox: ‘People need immunity from the virus of wokery’

“I'm debating whether I want to do it,” he tells me during a recording of my podcast, Chopper's Politics (you can listen to the interview using the audio player above). “At the moment I'm literally on seven o'clock in the morning till nine o'clock at night. I just don't have any time.”

The film offer comes just as Fox's political career is taking off in Westminster. After a donation of £5 million from former Conservative donor Jeremy Hosking got the ball rolling last summer, the Electoral Commission finally approved Reclaim as a political party last week.

“It's a huge relief,” he says. “I thought it would be a very simple process to lob in a submission to the Electoral Commission; they check whether your party would be confused with any other party. And then they go ‘you're good to go'. Apparently not.”

Fox has wasted no time since the registration, publishing a major piece of polling by Savanta/ComRes in the Sunday Telegraph at the weekend which he clearly hopes will provide hard evidence for why Britain needs a party like Reclaim. The study found that half of Britons believe they are less free to say what they think today than five years ago as