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English National Party
Centre-right

English National Party has been the name of various political parties of England, which have commonly called for a separate parliament for England.

The original ENP

History

The English National Party (ENP) was founded as the John Hampden New Freedom Party in 1966 by Frank Hansford-Miller. "John Hampden" was a reference to a leading parliamentarian from the English Civil War. In 1974, it was renamed the "English Nationalist Party".[1] It was defunct by 1981;[2] by this time, Hansford-Miller had left,[3] and he campaigned for the "Abolition of Rates Coalition" in the 1981 Greater London Council elections.[4]

The party's best known policy was advocating a

local authority housing. It was considered to be centre-right, and not racist.[4]

Performance

The party contested the

Member of Parliament John Stonehouse, who had formerly represented the Labour Party and at the time was awaiting trial for fraud.[8] However, Stonehouse was convicted and left Parliament in August of that year,[9] and the party did not stand a candidate in the subsequent by-election.[10]

Other parties by the name

According to the far-right magazine Spearhead,[11] a group called the English National Party was one of the small far-right organisations that joined the National Front shortly after it was formed in 1967.[11][12]

There have been several parties which have adopted the "English National Party" name. These include a

far right organisation formed by Raymond Shenton which contested the 1984 Enfield Southgate by-election;[13] a party founded in around 1995 by Christopher Nickerson,[14] which aimed for England to secede from the United Kingdom to support a sense of English national identity;[15] and a party founded by Robin Tilbrook and James Alden in 1999, with the aim of securing a devolved English Parliament,[16] which was later renamed the English Democrats Party in 2002, and then just the English Democrats in 2004.[17]

In April 1999, a group calling itself the "English National Party" was one of several different organisations which claimed responsibility for a nail-bomb attack in Brixton.

David Copeland, who admitted to carrying out the bombing, said that the claims of responsibility were made by others to "try to steal his glory."[19]

References

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  3. ^ "Dr Frank Hansford-Miller MSc PhD FRGS FSS" (PDF). The Patriot. Summer 2008. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^
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    . p. 88.
  5. ^ "General Election Results 1885-1979". election.demon.co.uk. General Election of 28 February 1974 (JHNFP). Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  6. ^ "General Election Results 1885-1979". election.demon.co.uk. General Election of 10 October 1974 & General Election of 3 May 1979 (ENP). Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  7. ^ "General Election Results 1885-1979". election.demon.co.uk. General Election of 10 October (ENP). Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
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  9. ^ "Criminal MPs: the five expelled from the Commons in the past 100 years". The Guardian. 11 January 2011.
  10. ^ "1976 By Election Results". by-elections.co.uk. Walsall North. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012.
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  12. ISBN 9781317693017
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  13. ^ "RESULTS OF BYELECTIONS IN THE 1983-87 PARLIAMENT". United Kingdom Election Results. ENFIELD, ENFIELD SOUTHGATE [30]. Archived from the original on 5 April 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  14. ^ "Teatime and Robin Hood: English Identity Crisis". The Christian Science Monitor. 2 November 1998.
  15. ^ "How English are you?". BBC News. 22 April 1999.
  16. ^ "Party History: The History of the English Democrats by Robin Tilbrook". English Democrats. 2 September 2015.
  17. ^ "Searchlight, Issues 367-378". Searchlight. 2006.
  18. ^ "Police chiefs reject Combat 18 threat unlikely". The Independent. 29 April 1999.
  19. ISSN 0261-3077
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