From early in his political career, Drummond Wolff's outlook was defined by his twin hatreds for
laissez-faire capitalism and
socialism, opinions that would lead him to become sympathetic to
fascism as an alternative. In 1934,
Viscount Lymington resigned as MP for
Basingstoke, after becoming disillusioned with party politics. Nonetheless, he helped to ensure that his successor as Conservative candidate would be Drummond Wolff, a close political associate. During his brief parliamentary career, he spoke in support of
Oswald Mosley, along with other BUF-linked Tories such as
Patrick Hannon,
John Moore-Brabazon,
Vice-Admiral E. A. Taylor and
Thomas Moore. Correspondence between Drummond Wolff and an election agent also indicates that, before Donner's selection as Conservative candidate for the
1935 general election could be ratified, he had had to be interviewed by Oswald Mosley, with the Basingstoke Conservative Party as a whole closely linked to the BUF. Such was the notoriety of Drummond Wolff with regards to his support for
Nazism that he was used as an unofficial intermediary with
Nazi Germany during the late 1930s. In 1939, Conservative Central Office operative and former
MI5 spy,
Sir Joseph Ball, acting on behalf of Chamberlain, facilitated four lengthy visits to Germany by Drummond Wolff, who undertook negotiations with
Helmuth Wohlthat and
Walther Hewel, political advisers to
Hermann Göring and
Adolf Hitler respectively, amongst others. In the last of those trips, Drummond Wolff even held talks with Göring himself. In 1934, he had become a member of the committee of the group which sought to promote trade between the countries within the
British Commonwealth and the
British Empire. Although close to the BUF, Drummond Wolff did maintain some independence and, as war loomed, he joined
Arthur Bryant in establishing Union and Reconstruction, a propaganda organisation that aimed to agitate against any proposed war with Germany. One of a number of similar movements active at the time, it had little influence outside far right circles. Drummond Wolff argued that war with Germany was being promoted by the press, which he claimed was controlled by
Jews and
leftists, as well as by war capitalists of the
United States, and by the
Soviet Union which, he argued, saw war as an opportunity for world revolution. The
Duke of Westminster, a staunch opponent of war with Germany, was impressed by Drummond Wolff's plan and read it to influential anti-war activists, but nothing came of it. ==Personal life==