New Britain Party
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In existence since 1977, the New Britain Party (NBP) has been led since its inception by Dennis Delderfield, a newspaper owner.
The NBP is anti-immigration and described as an "avowedly racist party" by the Observer (May 2001), with longstanding links to “Rhodesian” organisations promoting apartheid, such as the Springbok Club. A very minor force, the NBP briefly hit the headlines in 1980 when it absorbed the anti-immigration United Country Party, infamously chaired by TV astronomer Patrick Moore.
The NBP also organises an annual March for Freedom from Runnymede to Westminster in opposition to the EU, which attracts large crowds and is supported by the UK Independence Party (whose Chairman Mike Natrass stood for the NBP in the Dudley West by-election of 1994, attracting a mere 146 votes). As well as Natrass his fellow UKIP MEP Jeffrey Titford was also in the NBP.
The NBP are overall largely conservative, even reminiscent of the early League of Empire Loyalists, and do not seem to function beyond Delderfield anymore (although as of 2004 the NBP had stated that it would not run candidates against Conservatives who were running for any election on a Eurosceptic platform. The party publishes New Britain magazine from time to time. The party has since deteriorated to contain only one member, Mr Delderfield himself