National Prohibition Party (UK)

The National Prohibition Party was a minor party in the United Kingdom which advocated the prohibition of alcohol.

In April, Axel Gustafson put an advert in the Christian Commonwealth magazine listing a manifesto closely based on that of the American Prohibition Party.

[2] The party was officially founded in December, and joined the World Prohibition Fellowship.

[3] The party maintained a low level of activity and did not run a candidate in a parliamentary election until the 1923 Whitechapel and St George's by-election.

[3] S. M. Holden stood for the party in the by-election, and gained the backing of Scottish Prohibition Party Member of Parliament Edwin Scrymgeour,[4] but he took only 130 votes and lost his deposit.