Edgar Griffin
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Edgar Vincent Griffin is an English politician, previously of the Conservative Party.
He was a councillor for St Johns Wood Terrace Ward on St Marylebone Borough Council from 1959 to 1965. Griffin is the father of Nick Griffin, Chairman of the British National Party and his wife Jean is a councillor for the BNP. In August 2001 he was expelled from the Conservative Party after being found guilty of "assisting" the BNP, when he answered his wife's BNP hotline in his home because she was out posting letters. At the time of his expulsion, he was vice-president of Iain Duncan Smith's party leadership election campaign in Wales.
Jean Griffin was the BNP candidate in Enfield North at the 1997 general election and Chingford & Woodford Green in the 2001 general election.
[edit] External links
- Conservative Party statement on Edgar Griffin's expulsion
- telegraph.co.uk "Expelled Tory laments 'one silly mistake'"
- guardian.co.uk "Duncan Smith sacks backer with BNP link"
- BBC: Edgar Griffin Interview in full
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