Meanwhile Ecclestone's comments have been heavily criticised with condemnation coming from Jewish groups and a number politicians, including Denis MacShane, the Labour MP and chairman of the all-party inquiry into anti-Semitism, and chairman of the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism.
"Of course democracy and the politicians are imperfect and full of fault," he added in the same report in
The Times. "But this fashionable contempt for the right of people to elect their own leaders is frankly frightening.
"If Mr Ecclestone seriously thinks Hitler had to be persuaded to kill six million Jews, invade every European country and bomb London then he knows neither history and shows a complete lack of judgment."
