Anti-Press zealot Max Mosley faces fresh questions over motives for gagging newspapers as he confesses to leftie bias

CONTROVERSIAL millionaire Max Mosley faced fresh questions about his motives for press regulation last night after confessing to being a member of the Labour Party.

The son of British fascist leader Oswald Mosley and current bankroller of state backed press watchdog Impress had far-right leanings as a younger man.

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Mr Mosley’s father was an ex-Labour MP before being interned as leader of Britain’s pro-Hitler movement.

And yesterday the Sun revealed he sent a racist letter to The Times in 1962 calling for an end to “coloured immigration”.

Probed if he was still a fascist by Sky News, Mr Mosley replied: “No, I am a member of the Labour Party.”

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He went on: “This is too stupid to discuss. That letter that they quote is from 1962, it was fifty years ago you can find all sorts of things, it’s not the point.”

Pushed on whether he regretted using the term, he claimed that now days he “would have personally phrased that very differently.”

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Asked if the Sun was right to publish the story about his far right past, Mr Mosley said “absolutely, it’s true.”

He added: It’s a matter of record, there is nothing wrong with publishing that at all.”

The Labour Party have led the charge for a clamp down on 300 years of press freedom in the UK.

Mr Mosley was exposed by the Press for taking part in orgies with prostitutes and he later revealed he was prepared to fund a new state controlled media regulator.

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His involvement raised serious questions over the independence of Impress – the regulator set up by his family charity.

The Alexander Mosley Charitable Trust will provide funding of around £3.8m to cover the first four years of operation for the Impress regulator.

But only four per cent of Brits believe a press regulator should be funded by donations from the super-rich according to a recent poll.

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A YouGov survery found almost half believed the newspaper industry should cough up and fund themselves.

The survey, commissioned by the News Media association, also found more than two thirds of people believed social media platforms like Facebook should be subject to the same regulation as newspapers.

Most newspapers and magazines have already signed up voluntarily to a tough system of independent self-regulation under IPSO.