The National Front (NF) is a fascist political party in the United Kingdom. It is currently led by Tony Martin. A minor party, it has never had its representatives elected to the British or European Parliaments, although it gained a small number of local councillors through defections and it has had a few of its representatives elected to community councils. Founded in 1967, it reached the height of its electoral support during the mid-1970s, when it was briefly England's fourth-largest party in terms of vote share.
A National Front march in Yorkshire during the 1970s
The National Front cooperated with the North West Infidels and South East Alliance, groups that splintered from the English Defence League (rally depicted).
When the Strasserite faction took control of the National Front in the 1980s, it based its views of a future government on the ideas in The Green Book of Muammar Gaddafi (pictured).
Plaque memorialising the "Battle of Lewisham" in which anti-fascist protesters combatted a National Front march in 1977
John Tyndall (far-right activist)
John Hutchyns Tyndall was a British fascist political activist. A leading member of various small neo-Nazi groups during the late 1950s and 1960s, he was chairman of the National Front (NF) from 1972 to 1974 and again from 1975 to 1980, and then chairman of the British National Party (BNP) from 1982 to 1999. He unsuccessfully stood for election to the House of Commons and European Parliament on several occasions.
Tyndall addressing a Nationalist Alliance meeting in 2005
In his youth, Tyndall read and was influenced by Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.
Tyndall was one of the British neo-Nazis who established links with their American counterpart George Lincoln Rockwell (pictured).
A National Front (NF) march during the 1970s, the precursor movement from which the British National Party (BNP) emerged by 1982