“When I make decisions about things, I do it as a gun to the head: legalise drugs or don’t legalise drugs, and OK, I’d legalise drugs,” says Laurence Fox – actor, contrarian and 2021 London mayoral candidate.
We’re discussing his views on policing and libertarianism, but his admission of impulsiveness epitomises the tone of his political career to date.
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If I put on a bit of weight, there’s every chance in my stampede back into show business in 40 years, when everyone’s forgiven me for telling them what I thought about life, that I could possibly play Boris
In trying to cancel me, they’ve created someone uncancellable
Three hundred years ago, actually, it was probably quite woke to be a slave trader. It was kinda like “well look at what we’ve managed to do, look at how beautiful Liverpool is”
Calling someone a racist, what you’re doing is you’re suppressing free speech, because no one wants to be called a racist, right?
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