New Party (UK)

The party received £50,000 funding from Lord Nuffield and launched a magazine called Action, edited by Harold Nicolson.

Mosley also set up a party militia, the "Biff Boys" led by the England rugby captain Peter Howard.

"[5] The New Party programme was built on the "Mosley Memorandum", advocating a national policy to meet the economic crisis that the Great Depression had brought.

Gradually, the New Party became more authoritarian, with parts of it, notably its youth movement NUPA, adopting overtly fascist thinking and the wearing of "Greyshirt" uniforms.

[6] The New Party's sharp turn to fascism led previous supporters such as John Strachey and Harold Nicolson to leave it.