Eddy Butler challenges for BNP leadership

Eddy Butler's campaign team has been joined by former Yorkshire organiser Nick Cass

Eddy Butler's campaign team for the forthcoming BNP leadership election has been joined by former Yorkshire organiser Nick Cass

Eddy Butler, the election strategist behind every successful BNP campaign from Derek Beackon’s victory in 1993 to the Barking & Dagenham landslide of 2006, is to challenge Nick Griffin for the leadership of the British National Party.

Mr Butler is presently gathering the necessary nominations to trigger an election, which would take place via a postal ballot of BNP members concluding in mid-October.

Further information appears on Eddy Butler’s blog and on a new leadership campaign website.