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The unmourned demise of the BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY
In 2009 BNP leader Nick Griffin promised a ‘political earthquake’ – yet within months the party had crashed. MATTHEW COLLINS charts the racist leader’s welcome downfall

FORMER British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin may no longer be an MEP, but he spends more time in the European Parliament these days than most Ukip MEPs.

He lauded and patted himself on the back that he was, after all, the most successful fascist politician in the history of the British far right.

In the near 15 years he led the BNP, he’d come close to a lot of things.

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