In 1915, Victor Fisher formed the Socialist National Defence Committee[1] along with Alexander M. Thompson and Robert Blatchford.
It described itself as a "patriotic labour" group, and focused on support for the war and the British Empire and opposition to Little Englander and Cobdenite laissez-faire economics.
[6] The League was supported by Labour MPs such as James O'Grady, Stephen Walsh and William Abraham.
[citation needed] At its high water mark, the party fielded twenty-eight candidates in the 1918 general election—twenty of them on the Coalition Coupon—and won ten seats.
The National Democratic and Labour Party was wound up in 1923, but a grouping continued as the Empire Citizens' League[10] from 1925 until the late 1920s.