British Union of Fascists

British  

noun

1. the British fascist party founded by Sir Oswald Mosley (1932), which advocated a strong corporate state and promoted anti-Semitism

---

Example Sentences

In Britain during the 1930s, anti-fascists threw various foods at Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists at different meetings.

From Salon

Knight confirms Mosley will return in the sixth season and goes on to say that he has as good as cast an actor in the role of Diana Mitford, second wife to the leader of the British Union of Fascists, the party Mosley founded in 1932.

From The Guardian

Mosley, the Labour MP who would go on to found the British Union of Fascists, is the main antagonist in the forthcoming fifth series of the Bafta-award winning Peaky Blinders – and the show’s creator, Steven Knight, says despite the politician’s abhorrent views, the decision to feature him prominently was an easy one.

From The Guardian

On that day, about 5,000 followers of Oswald Mosley, the Hitler-wannabe parliamentarian who founded the British Union of Fascists, wore their black-shirt faux uniforms and tried to march through the heart of London’s Jewish and immigrant community in the East End.

From Washington Post

Despite his public support for Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists – the Blackshirts – in the 1930s, he spent the second world war in charge of the plans to evacuate King George VI and his family in the event of a German invasion.

From The Guardian