Northern Party

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Group.png Northern Party  
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Northern Party (England) logo 2015.png
Formation2015
Extinction2016
Leaders• Michael Dawson
• Harold Elletson
IfS backed UK political party. Electoral flop.

The Northern Party was founded by Michael Dawson and the IfS member Harold Elletson.

Founding

Michael Dawson, a former Executive Committee member of the Labour Campaign for Human Rights, is the nephew of former MP for Lancaster Hilton Dawson who now runs the North East Party. At the launch of the party he said "We've been planning this for months. This is a Northern rebellion against a system that has failed the North."[1] The party argued for Northern England devolution of power to an autonomous Northern region, and for business investment and environmental protection.[2]

The party described its symbol as "a Norse raven, closely associated with the ancient kingdom of Northumbria (today's North of England) and the struggle for autonomy".[3]

Electoral history

The party stood candidates in five seats in Lancashire:[4]


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