New Britain Party

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The New Britain Party (NBP) is a minor political party in the United Kingdom, which was founded in 1977. It has been led since its inception by Dennis Delderfield, a newspaper owner.

The NBP is anti-immigration and has been described as an "avowedly racist party" by The Observer (May 2001), with longstanding links to “Rhodesian” organisations promoting apartheid, such as the Springbok Club. A very minor force, the NBP briefly hit the headlines in 1980 when it absorbed the anti-immigration United Country Party, which had been chaired by TV astronomer Patrick Moore.

During the early 1990s, the party emphasised its opposition to the European Union, which probably helped to win it the support of the magazine This England, and attracted several figures who later became prominent in larger anti-EU parties. The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Mike Nattrass was once a member of the NBP, and stood for it in the Dudley West by-election of 1994, attracting a mere 146 votes. As well as Natrass, his fellow UKIP MEP Jeffrey Titford was also briefly a member.

The NBP are overall largely conservative, even reminiscent of the early League of Empire Loyalists. In 2004, the NBP stated that it would not run candidates against Conservatives who were running for any election on a Eurosceptic platform. The party publishes New Britain magazine from time to time.