20 Facts About Richard Edmonds

Richard Charles Edmonds was an English politician.

Richard Edmonds was the deputy chairman and national organiser of the British National Party and prominent in the National Front during two spells of membership.

From 1982, Richard Edmonds held senior positions within the newly formed British National Party, eventually becoming deputy leader and acting leader for a spell in 1986 while Tyndall was in prison for incitement to racial hatred.

Richard Edmonds took a role in funding the party, including partially funding the purchase of a new party headquarters and bookshop in Welling.

Richard Edmonds ran the party's Welling premises, living in the premises, for ten years, from 1989 to 1999.

Tyndall wrote that the next day Richard Edmonds was told he would have to leave.

The theme was re-visited in Panorama on 8 April 1991, when Richard Edmonds described the publication as "a wonderful statement of the truth".

Richard Edmonds threw a beer glass at them and his companions "glassed" the man's face and punched and kicked him.

Richard Edmonds was eventually sentenced to the time he had already spent in jail on remand.

Richard Edmonds has a conviction for damaging a statue of Nelson Mandela on the South Bank in London.

Richard Edmonds had previously clarified his position to Panorama as "racism means long live the white race, long live the British race".

In 2005, Richard Edmonds gave support to the British Holocaust denier David Irving when he was arrested for denying the Holocaust in Austria.

Richard Edmonds' held the position of national organiser until 1999 when he was forced to resign following the elevation of Nick Griffin in the leadership election that year.

Richard Edmonds remained Tyndall's closest ally but was not expelled from the party when Tyndall and another long-term ally, John Morse, were expelled in 2003, before being subsequently reinstated.

Richard Edmonds continued to write for Spearhead until it ceased publication on Tyndall's death in 2005.

Richard Edmonds was co-opted by Griffin onto the BNP's Advisory Council in September 2008, thereby returning to the upper echelon of the party and ending his period of apparent dissidence.

However, in August 2010, following Eddy Butler's unsuccessful leadership challenge, Richard Edmonds was sacked from the Advisory Council due to his open criticism of Griffin's fundraiser, Jim Dowson, and to his support for the leadership bid by Butler.

The NF in a report on its 2011 AGM, claimed that Richard Edmonds had decided to rejoin the party.

Richard Edmonds was the party's candidate in the 2012 Croydon North by-election, finishing eighth out of twelve candidates with 161 votes and in Carshalton and Wallington for the 2015 general election, receiving 49 votes.

Richard Edmonds was the NF's candidate in the Batley and Spen by-election, held on 20 October 2016, following the murder of the MP Jo Cox.