Social commentator Douglas Murray has said Enoch Powell did "more right than wrong" in a statement he acknowledged would be controversial.
Sitting down with GB News reporter Steve Edginton in an interview on the "decline of the white British", Murray claimed Powell was a "remarkable man".
As Steve discussed the many "post war titans" of Britain, he described how Powell is one of the more prominent names, and how he is an "incredibly influential" figure.
Steve said: "Those post-war titans, I'm not being ironic here - I genuinely think this was Enoch Powell, an incredibly influential, incredibly intellectual politician.
Murray claimed Enoch Powell was a ‘remarkable man’
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"You can say what you like about his views on immigration, but I think he's an incredibly impressive person."
In agreement with Steve, Murray told GB News that he was a "remarkable man", and even those with opposing views thought of him as a "great orator" of his time.
Murray stated: "He was a remarkable man, and even people who were detractors of his and opponents of his, like Diane Abbott, had the courtesy to acknowledge that he was among the great orators of his era.
"I actually met him a few times as a boy. He was a mesmerising, compelling figure. And there's something very interesting about him."
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Douglas Murray joined GB News reporter Steven Edginton to discuss the 'decline of the white British'
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Noting his iconic speech, 'Rivers of Blood' in 1968, Murray claimed that certain remarks made by Powell in that speech "didn't help his argument".
Murray said: "He didn't get everything right. And you might say, well, who does? And there are certain parts of his famous '68 speech which are lurid and definitely didn't help his argument in certain ways.
"But that aside, on a range of issues, he just got a lot more right than he got wrong."
Highlighting Steve's knowledge of the work and views of Powell, Murray discussed how there is a "reason why all these decades later" that Powell is remembered over other key political figures.
Murray told GB News that there is a 'reason' why Powell is remembered decades on from his death
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Murray told Steve: "If somebody has a theory or a claim that is simply not true, it dies with them. But there is a reason why all these decades later, somebody of your age would know the name Enoch Powell.
"And I imagine that from one week to the next, you very rarely think about Reginald Maudling, Barbara Castle - we do not discuss Ted Heath's thoughts, Roy Jenkins, even Shirley Williams is not on the tip of everyone's tongues in 2025."
He added: "But Enoch Powell lingers, and there's obviously a reason for that. Just as people seem to be fearful about Renaud Camus, if his thought was so easily debunked, if his observation and what he's written about in his description of seeing with his eyes is so untrue, then why is it so dangerous?
"Why is it so much to be despised and rejected? And the answer is obviously that the problem is that Camus, like Powell, was onto something and that obviously terrifies a lot of people. And it would, wouldn't it?"
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