Fox is apparently hoping to stand dozens of candidates for his new party, provisionally called “Reclaim”, at the next general election.
Ayoade, who is half-Nigerian, was reportedly furious at this, and told Fox: “You have never encountered racism.”
It has been set up to provide a political movement for people who are “tired of being told that we represent the very thing we have, in history, stood together against”.
He said that Britain is in “desperate need” of a new political movement that “promises to make our future a shared endeavour, not a divisive one.