[3][4] The party advocated traditional ideals held on the British right such as opposition to immigration,[8] arguing that citizenship should be acquired via nationality that is inherited from ones descent and not from any legal mechanisms;[8] describing the west as being ensued by Islamisation;[9] and declared that the party is committed to ending all immigration to the United Kingdom,[8] supporting a British withdrawal from the 1951 Refugee Convention, the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the Global Compact for Migration (GCM).

[8] In the 2015 United Kingdom general election, the party nominated one candidate, the BDP chairman, Jim Lewthwaite in Bradford East.

[11] In July 2022, Julian Leppert, an elected councillor representing the For Britain Movement on Epping Forest District Council in Essex, joined the BDP.

[15] The British Democrats, whose campaign received support from the far-right hate group Patriotic Alternative, stood five candidates in the 2023 local elections.

[17] In March 2024, British Democratic Party candidate Ken Perrin won a by-election to a seat on the Chatteris town council in Cambridgeshire with 47% of the vote.

[19] The party stood four parliamentary candidates in the 2024 general election:[20] Christopher Bateman in Basildon and Billericay, Gary Butler in Maidstone and Malling, Frank Calladine in Doncaster North, and Lawrence Rustem in Faversham and Mid Kent.