National Front

In the UK, extreme right-wing political party founded in 1967. In 1991 the party claimed 3,000 members. Some of its members had links with the National Socialist Movement of the 1960s (see Nazism). It attracted attention during the 1970s through the violence associated with its demonstrations in areas with large black and Asian populations and, in response, the left-wing Anti Nazi League was formed to mount counter protests.

The NF was formed from a merger of the League of Empire Loyalists and the British National Party. In 1982 the NF's leading figure, John Tyndall, left to form a new BNP, which has since eclipsed the NF. Standing on a platform of repatriation of coloured immigrants and national autonomy, the NF won up to o.6% of the vote in national elections in the 1970s.