The National Front (NF) is a neo-fascist political party in the United Kingdom that was founded on 7 February 1967 by A.K. Chesterton. The party reached its heyday during the 1970s, during which concerns about Asian immigration led to rapid increases in the party's membership and vote share in East London and northern England. The party's strongest support bases were working-class neighborhoods in which traditional Labour Party voters, upset with the Labour governments, joined the National Front due to its racial appeal. The NF won a few local council seats during the 1970s and organized street marches and rallies, often resulting in clashes with anti-fascist protesters.
The NF had various factions such as neo-Nazis, Strasserists, and populists, and it was positioned at the extreme right of British politics. It called for an end to non-white immigration to the UK, the stripping of citizenship from non-white Britons, supported racial separatism, endorsed Holocaust denial, claimed that Jews sought to take over the world with communism and capitalism, promoted economic protectionism and Euroscepticism, supported an end to the UK's liberal democracy, and opposed feminism, gay rights, and societal permissiveness. In 1982, John Tyndall left the party to form the British National Party, and many NF members defected to the BNP, which became a more successful party.
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