AFTER THE WAR

Mosley’s attempts to keep fascism alive failed

Mosley abandoned the British Union of Fascists after the war, but still pushed much of the same agenda with his new organisation, the Union Movement. Alongside Euphorion Books, set up with his wife Diana Mosley to publish the works of right-wing authors, Mosley was committed to closer ties between Britain and Europe and stopping immigration from former colonial nations. The Mosleys left England in 1951 to live in Ireland and then France, close to their friends the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson. Still, following race riots in Notting Hill in 1958, Mosley ran for election for Kensington North in 1959 and for Shoreditch & Finsbury in 1966, but lost on both occasions. After this final defeat he retired to France, where he wrote his autobiography. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1977 and died on 3 December 1980 in Paris.