National Liberal Party (UK, 1999)
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National Liberal Party
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| Founded | March 1999 |
| Ideology | British nationalism |
| Political position | Far-right |
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| http://nationalliberal.org/ | |
The National Liberal Party is a far-right political party formed in the United Kingdom in 1999. It was registered with the Electoral Commission by Dean Williamson and Graham Williamson on 25 March 1999. The group sporadically contested elections until emerging more prominently in the run up the 2014 European Parliament election. It fielded eight candidates in the London constituency election in May 2014.
The party was founded by Graham Williamson and Patrick Harrington. Williamson is a former deputy chairman of the National Front (NF) and a member of the executive of the British National Party (BNP)-supported trade union Solidarity. Harrington was BNP leader Nick Griffin's European Parliament staff manager and a former leading figure in the NF, and general secretary of Solidarity. They ran a nationalist think tank for more than twenty years called the Third Way, named after the third-positionist strategies influenced by the ideology of Roberto Fiore, an Italian fascist. Third-positionist ideas were a great influence on the "Political Soldier" faction of the NF, which included Williamson, Harrington and Griffin.
In 1990, a year after the "political soldiers" voted to disband the National Front, Third Way was founded as a political think tank. It was re-registered as "National Liberal Party – The Third Way" in 2006 to run candidates in local elections. The party ran in the 2010 general election, contesting the Eastleigh seat. Their candidate Keith Lowe ran a campaign attacking the sitting MP Chris Huhne for his failure to support a referendum over the Treaty of Lisbon. During the election the presence of several former NF members in prominent position was raised in the local press although General Secretary David Durant, himself a former NF member, claimed that the party belonged to the "patriotic centre".
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