Laurence Fox’s libel claim over racism accusations to go to retrial

Judges dismissed Laurence Fox’s attempt to overturn the ruling that he libelled two men when he called them ‘paedophiles’. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Laurence Fox’s libel claim after he was called a racist on social media will go to a retrial, the court of appeal has ruled.

The former actor was successfully sued by Simon Blake, who is now the chief executive of Stonewall, and the drag artist Crystal over a row on the social media platform Twitter, now called X.