'Race hate' furore
Kensington Post, 19 June 1970
The Conservative candidate for North Kensington this week attacked a "scurrilous piece of literature" which was being circulated in the borough at the weekend.
The document, printed in green ink, with no clue as to its authorship, provoked the angriest remarks of a hitherto peaceful campaign from lawyer Mr. Leon Britain.
"We did not put this leaflet out, nor would we have," said Mr. Brittan. "I dissociate myself and my party from it entirely. I would not want to win a single vote as a result of this disgraceful literature."
The leaflet, headed "Face the Facts", states: "If you desire a coloured for your neighbour, vote Labour. If you are already burdoned (sic) with one, Vote Tory."
It goes on to say that the Tories would bring back the Ministry of Repatriation to "speed up the  return of homegoing and expelled immigrants."
Mr. Brittan told the POST that a copy of the leaflet had been delivered to the North Kensington Conservative Party offices in Ladbroke Grove.
"It is a racialist leaflet, and I want nothing to do with it," he said. "I am not sure whether it has been put out by ultra-left wingers, or by ultra-right wingers trying to discredit us."
Mr. Brittan asked the POST to tell electors that he repudiates "every word" in the leaflet.
Labour candidate in North Kensington, Mr. Bruce Douglas-Mann, said: "I am sure that my Tory opponent would have nothing to do with racialist appeals of this kind. But it indicates the kind of people behind the Tory Party.
"If the Conservatives were elected, they would find it difficult to resist pressure from their Powellite supporters."