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Colin Jordan: leader of the far Right

As founder in 1962 of the National Socialist Movement, which he led until its reorganisation in 1968 as the British Movement (which he also led), Colin Jordan made a reputation of sorts for himself as the most intemperate voice of the far Right in the liberalising decade of the 1960s.

Modelling himself as a history student at Cambridge on Arnold Leese, whose prewar Imperial Fascist League had advocated the gassing of Jews, Jordan was, principally, virulently anti-Semitic. Supporters of his NSM carried out numerous arson attacks against Jewish property in London — though Jordan himself escaped being implicated in these.

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