Mr Fox said he hopes to appeal his counter-claim
Laurence Fox has lost a High Court libel case with two people he called paedophiles on social media.
The actor-turned-politician was sued by former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and drag artist Crystal.
In an exchange on X, formerly Twitter, about a decision by Sainsbury’s to mark Black History Month, Mr Fox referred to the two as “paedophiles”.
High Court judge Mrs Justice Collins Rice said Mr Fox’s labelling was “harmful, defamatory and baseless”.
She said he did not attempt to show the court that these allegations were true and that “the law affords few defences to defamation of this sort.”
In his written evidence for the case, Crystal, a former RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant and whose real name is Colin Seymour, said he had faced “overwhelming and distressing” abuse after Mr Fox’s tweet.
He added that he felt less safe as a drag performer as a result of Mr Fox’s allegations.
Mr Blake, now chief executive of Mental Health First Aid England, said the incorrect suggestion that gay men are paedophiles is “a…
