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Welsh name | Plaid Democrataidd Prydeinig[1] |
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Chairman | James Lewthwaite[2] |
Founded | 9 February 2013 |
Split from | British National Party |
Headquarters | Loughborough, Leicestershire, England |
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Political position | Far-right |
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The British Democratic Party (BDP), commonly known as the British Democrats, is a British far-right[3] political party. It was registered with the Electoral Commission in 2011,[1] and officially launched in 2013 at a Leicestershire village hall by a ten-member steering committee which included former members of several political parties including the British National Party (BNP), Democratic Nationalists, Freedom Party and UK Independence Party (UKIP).[3]
The party's inaugural president was Andrew Brons, then a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).[3] Brons had been a member of the BNP and a leading member of the National Front (NF). Its current chairman is Dr James Lewthwaite. The steering committee included a number of others with a history of membership in fascist and neo-Nazi groups,[4] who believed that the BNP had been corrupted and watered-down.[3]