John Kingsley Read (18 April 1936 – 18 September 1985) was a British fascist politician and Holocaust denier.
[1] A strong orator, Read rose quickly through the NF ranks, his style drawing comparisons to American politician George Wallace, to whom he also bore a passing physical resemblance.
[3] After securing the support of potential rival Roy Painter, Read was elected chairman of the National Front in 1974, with the neo-imperialist John Tyndall his deputy chairman, in what was regarded as a vote by the "populist" or Strasserite wing of the party against the authoritarian Tyndall.
Read designed the front cover motif for the British edition of Arthur Butz's Holocaust denial book, The Hoax of the Twentieth Century,[6] which was circulated by the NP.
After the murder of a young Sikh man, Gurdip Singh Chaggar, in a suspected racist attack, Read remarked during a speech at an NP meeting, "One down, a million to go," which effectively ended his presentation of a more "moderate" stance.