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Nick Griffin

Nick Griffin is the chairman of the British National Party, a far-right political party originally formed as a splinter group of the National Front in 1982. While at Downing College at Cambridge University he founded the Young National Front Student organisation. After leaving university he worked at the National Front headquarters, and became a national organiser for them before leaving in 1989 to form the International Third Position, a development of the Political Soldier movement. Griffin joined the British National Party in 1995 which was at that point under the leadership of John Tyndall. In 1999 Griffin took over leadership of the BNP from Tyndall. In 2009, the BNP won two seats in the European Parliamentary Elections.

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FA attacks BNP race rant video about Wembley

20.11.09
Football Association demands that a BNP promotional video featuring Wembley stadium be removed from the internet... more

Londoners must join forces for the Battle of Barking to stop BNP

16.11.09
Earlier this year, while preparing a Radio 4 series on Britishness, I spent a day in Leicester interviewing its citizens about national identity... more

Margaret Hodge: I'll drive BNP's Nick Griffin out of Barking

16.11.09
Government minister Margaret Hodge vowed to 'expose and expel' BNP leader Nick Griffin after it emerged he would contest her east London constituency at the general election... more

Science must not invent new myths about race

16.11.09
Science and race have never been easy bedfellows. Since Victorian times, when Western scientific advancement was used as an intellectual and moral justification for European colonial expansion, science or pseudo-science has occupied an uncomfortable place in our understanding of race... more

BNP leader gets 'friendly' reception as he joins soldiers' mourners

10.11.09
BNP leader Nick Griffin was present in Wootton Bassett to see the bodies of six soldiers pass through the town after their repatriation from Afghanistan to British soil... more

Shappi Khorsandi shines in comedy of terrors

05.11.09
Thanks to numerous television appearances and lashings of talent Shappi Khorsandi is a comedian on the cusp of household-name fame.... more

BNP can come back on Question Time every year, says BBC boss

28.10.09
Latest: BNP is entitled to be invited back onto Question Time once a year on the basis of the public support it is getting, the BBC’s director-general said... more

BNP 'in plot to get rid of Nick Griffin'

27.10.09
Nick Griffin could face a fresh challenge as leader of the BNP after his performance on Question Time... more

There's no secret about Labour and immigration

27.10.09
Myths can be halfway around the world before truth can get its boots on. So it is with the great weekend story that in 2000 Labour ministers had "a deliberate policy" but a concealed one to "open up the UK to mass migration"... more

BNP to get free advertising on BBC for general election

23.10.09
Video: New row breaks out over BNP getting free television advertising, while Europe’s most notorious far-Right leader said BBC had given Nick Griffin a massive potential boost... more

When Bonnie Greer met Nick Griffin

23.10.09
Bonnie Greer reveals what really went on behind the scenes on the gripping Question Time... more

Three police officers injured in anti-BNP protest

23.10.09
Protesters laid siege to the BBC's Television Centre in a fruitless bid to halt the filming of Question Time resulting in six arrests and injuries to three police officers... more

Griffin predicts Question Time will put BNP into 'the big time'

22.10.09
BNP leader Nick Griffin predicts that tonight's Question Time would be 'political blood sport' but said it could propel his party into 'the big time'... more

BBC tighten security for BNP leader Nick Griffin's arrival

22.10.09
Latest: Security at BBC Television Centre will be tight as British National Party leader Nick Griffin arrives to record Question Time tonight... more

BNP on Question Time is not the real problem

22.10.09
There has been one beneficiary of the heated and protracted debate about the appearance of the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, on BBC Question Time tonight: ratings for the programme are likely to soar... more

BBC pledges to censor BNP leader’s racist claims

22.10.09
BBC scrambles to reassure the public that BNP leader Nick Griffin will not be allowed to use his Question Time debut to incite racial hatred... more

London MPs attack BBC for inviting party leader onto Question Time

22.10.09
London MPs today led a furious backlash against the BBC for inviting the BNP onto Question Time... more

Getting balance right between free speech and censorship

21.10.09
Media analysis: It is recognised, except by the most fundamentalist of libertarians, that the exercise of free speech carries with it certain responsibilities... more

BBC ready to film BNP debate at secret site

21.10.09
BBC chiefs have drafted emergency plans to shift the venue for Question Time if protests against BNP leader Nick Griffin turn violent... more

Army generals condemn BNP for 'hijacking' military images

20.10.09
Former military heavyweights joined forces to warn that the Armed Forces were in danger of being hijacked by far right groups... more

BNP attacks non-white Question Time panellists

19.10.09
BNP attacks the two non-white panellists due to appear alongside Nick Griffin on the BBC's Question Time on Thursday... more

BNP forced to end policy for ‘whites only’ membership

15.10.09
Latest: BNP will be forced to admit black and Asian members after court ordered an end the party’s 'white only' policy... more

Black writer to join BNP leader on Question Time

13.10.09
Black writer Bonnie Greer will take part in a televised debate with far right British National Party leader Nick Griffin, the BBC confirms ... more

Police need to 'get a grip' of protesters, says BNP leader Nick Griffin

10.06.09
BNP leader Nick Griffin urged the police to "get a grip" of protesters who forced the party's MEPs to abandon their first joint press conference... more

BNP leader Nick Griffin pelted with eggs

09.06.09
BNP leader Nick Griffin was chased off the streets of London after being pelted with swastika-daubed eggs... more

We're to blame for BNP success, says Harriet Harman

08.06.09
The BNP's success in the European election followed a collapse in Labour's support in its heartlands, Harriet Harman admitted... more

BNP boss pulls out of Palace garden party

27.05.09
British National Party leader Nick Griffin will not attend the Buckingham Palace garden party, saying he had “no wish to embarrass the Queen”... more

Churchill's family denounces BNP election broadcast

26.05.09
The family of Sir Winston Churchill today described as "offensive and disgusting" a decision by the BNP to use his image in a party election broadcast... more

Churchill's family denounces BNP election broadcast

26.05.09
The family of Sir Winston Churchill described a decision by the BNP to use his image in a party election broadcast as "offensive and disgusting"... more

Assembly tries to stop BNP ‘hijacking’ the Queen’s party

21.05.09
The London Assembly is trying to stop BNP leader Nick Griffin attending a Buckingham Palace party... more

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  • Facts
  • In 1998, Griffin was charged and convicted with incitement to racial hatred and received a nine month sentence suspended for two years and a fine of £2300
  • Griffin lives in Wales with his wife and four children, each of which speak both English and Welsh
  • In May 2009, Griffin was controversially invited by the BNP representative to the London Assembly to a garden party held at Buckingham Palace, to be hosted by the Queen. After numerous objections from various organisations and public figures including the Mayor of London Boris Johnson, Griffin decided to decline the invitation as he stated that he had “no wish to embarrass the Queen”
  • He graduated from Downing College at Cambridge with a 2:2 in history and law, as well as a boxing blue, having taken up boxing after an impromptu fight with an anti-fascist party member in Lewisham, London.

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