Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious by demonstrators in Liverpool moments after giving a fascist salute.
Mosley arrived in the city on October 10 1937 with the intention of holding a rally starting on Queens Drive before touring around Liverpool preaching his fascist beliefs. While the former Labour MP for Smethwick in the West Midlands' anti-Semitic and racist politics found success in some pockets of London, they failed spectacularly in trying to establish a foothold among Liverpool's working class voters.
Just two years before the outbreak of WWII Mosley's British Union of Fascists' followers were growing and he decided to visit parts of the country where he didn't have as much support with the aim of converting the working classes to a new fascist ideology.
