Question Time: 'I'm not a Nazi', says Griffin
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Question Time: 'I'm not a Nazi', says Griffin
British National Party leader Nick Griffin has denied he is a Nazi during his controversial first appearance on the BBC1 discussion programme Question Time. During the recording he claimed he was "loathed" by Nazis in Britain because of the direction he had taken the far-right party. At one pointed he taunted Justice Secretary Jack Straw, saying his own father had served in the RAF during the Second World War while Mr Straw's father had been in prison for "refusing to fight Hitler". Asked by presenter David Dimbleby if he had ever denied the Holocaust, he replied: "I do not have a conviction for Holocaust denial." Mr Griffin, 50, shared the platform with Justice Secretary Jack Straw, Tory peer Baroness Warsi, Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne and writer Bonnie Greer. He was attacked by a number of audience members, with one man branding his views as "disgusting" and accusing him of "poisoning politics". Another man suggested derisively that he should be consigned to the South Pole where "the colourless landscape will suit you".
ITN | October 22, 2009
