A university lecturer who claimed black people were intellectually inferior to whites was suspended today.

Frank Ellis, a lecturer in Russian and Slavonic studies at Leeds University, said he was an "unrepentant Powellite" who thought the BNP was "a bit too socialist" for his liking in a recent interview with the Leeds Student newspaper.

Dr Ellis said he supported ideas such as the theory developed by Richard J Herrnstein and Charles Murray in their 1994 book, The Bell Curve, which claims that white people are more intelligent than black people.

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