A National Front march in Yorkshire during the 1970s
A National Front march in Yorkshire during the 1970s
The National Front (NF) quickly became Britain's largest far-right party post-war, boosted in popularity by the Rivers of Blood speech given by Enoch Powell in 1968.
Founded by A. K. Chesterton, the NF was formed from the merging of the LEL, the Bean's BNP, the Racial Preservation Society, and the Greater Britain Movement, that was at the time led by Tyndall.
The NF opposed the mass-migration of non-white migrants throughout the 1970s and was able to boost its popularity through the opposition to the immigration rules introduced by Edward Heath, leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party and prime minister, which saw a boost to their membership, to an estimated 17,500 by 1972.
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