‘Not racist’

And, asked about a quote attributed to him in which he equated six million deaths in the Holocaust with the flat earth theory he replied that “European law” stopped him explaining.
“I can’t tell you why I used to say those things anymore than I can tell you why I have changed my mind,” he said.
Mr Straw replied: “There is not law here that stops you explaining yourself.”
The justice secretary said when anybody put a specific quotation to Mr Griffin he tried to “wriggle out of it”.
Conservative frontbencher Baroness Warsi said Mr Griffin was “a thoroughly deceptive man”.
Asked whether immigration policy had fuelled the BNP, Mr Straw said he did not think it had and said he thought the BNP had been boosted by discontent with the main parties over issues like expenses.
But Baroness Warsi said politicians had a responsibility to take on the BNP on the issue of immigration: “Many people who vote for the BNP are not racist and therefore what we have to do is go out and say to these people as mainstream political parties we are prepared to listen.”
Mr Griffin blamed the “political elite” for imposin