Charles Wegg-Prosser

Charles Wegg-Prosser (16 August 1910 – 7 October 1996) was a British politician and solicitor.

Wegg-Prosser attended Downside School, then studied at Oriel College, Oxford and became a solicitor. In 1934, he joined the British Union of Fascists (BUF), soon becoming director of the group's Shoreditch branch. For the April 1936 edition of the Fascist Quarterly, Wegg-Prosser wrote "The Worker and the State", denouncing Communist governments as "controlled, not by national workers, but by parasitic Jews" and Fabianism as a "Jewish racket."

At the 1937 London County Council election, he stood for the party in Limehouse, and the party then relocated him to Paddington.

Wegg-Prosser became disillusioned with fascism, making contact with anti-fascist activists, and leaving the BUF at the end of 1937. He then began speaking out against the group's anti-semitism and fondness of dictatorship, and was admitted to the Labour Party, on a year's probation. He served in the British Army during World War II.

His grandson Benjamin Wegg-Prosser was Tony Blair's Director of Strategic Communications at 10 Downing Street.