The National Front is a far-right party that came to prominence in the early 1970s amidst economic turmoil and growing non-white Commonwealth immigration.

The arrival of Ugandan Asians was seized on by the National Front to foment racial hatred. Marches were planned in places of immigrant settlement such as Leicester which became a hotbed of far-right organisation.

See below a video on the National Front and the atmosphere of racial  hatred towards minorities that they sought to promote in 1970’s Britain: