Far-right politics in the United Kingdom have existed since at least the 1930s, with the formation of
Nazi,
fascist and
anti-semitic movements. It went on to acquire more explicitly racial connotations, being dominated in the 1960s and 1970s by self-proclaimed
white nationalist organisations that opposed non-white and
Asian immigration, such as the
National Front (NF), the
British Movement (BM) and
British National Party (BNP), or the
British Union of Fascists (BUF). Since the 1980s, the term has mainly been used to describe those groups, such as the
English Defence League, who express the wish to preserve what they perceive to be British culture, and those who campaign against the presence of non-indigenous
ethnic minorities and what they perceive to be an excessive number of
asylum seekers.