Then Labour won the balance of control on the council in May insisting the new administration revoke the NF's licence.

Verrall, the party's deputy chairman, sued on his own behalf and for the NF members for performance of the contract.

Since the case of Winter Garden Theatre Ltd v Millennium Ltd[1] he said, ‘it is clear that once a man has entered under his contract of licence, he cannot be turned out.

An injunction can be obtained against the licensor to prevent his being turned out.’[2] Supposing one of the great political parties - say, the Conservative Party - had booked its hall at Brighton for its conference in September of this year: it had made all its arrangements accordingly: it had all its delegates coming: it had booked its hotels, and so on.

When arrangements are made for a licence of this kind of such importance and magnitude affecting many people, the licensors cannot be allowed to repudiate it and simply pay damages.