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- ↑ "Under the skin of the BNP". BBC News. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
- ↑ Nick Lowles (30 October 2007). "The men who are creating a new BNP ideology". Searchlight. Archived from the original on 30 October 2007. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
- 1 2 Taylor, Matthew (11 April 2007). "BNP faces inquiry over US fundraising". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
- ↑ "Civil Liberty Or Just Old Fashioned Anti Semitism?". HOPE not hate. 27 June 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2018.