Oswald Mosely's New Party [14min]

Shaun Ley explores small parties that had a big impact on British politics, starting with the New Party set up by Sir Oswald Mosley in 1931, Vanguard; the hardline Unionist party from 1970's Northern Ireland; and Militant, the Trotskyites who operated as a party with the Labour Party in the mid 1980's. Mosley was recently rated the greatest British villain of the twentieth century by a group of historians for leading Britain's fascists. But before that he left the Labour Government in 1931 to set up his New Party to fight unemployment.