Political pundit and former actor Laurence Fox has been ordered to pay a total of £180,000 to two men he called paedophiles, during an argument on social media.

Fox was sued by former Stonewall trustee Simon Blake and RuPaul’s Drag Race UK star Crystal in 2020 after an exchange on X/Twitter.

During the argument, sparked by Fox’s disdain for the supermarket chain Sainsbury’s after a Black History Month celebration post, the Reclaim Party founder called the two men, as well as Coronation Street star Nicola Thorp, paedophiles.

In January, high …