The Heritage Party is a minor political party launched in 2020 by the former UKIP official and ex-London Assembly member David Kurten. 

The party emerged from the anti-vaccine and anti-lockdown protest movement of the COVID-19 pandemic, and retains a distinctly conspiratorial focus. Kurten is a long-standing proponent of the “cultural Marxism” theory, which claims that left-wingers embedded within cultural and political institutions are subversively working to destroy traditional values and undermine the West. 

This view shapes Heritage’s strongly reactionary agenda, which includes a barrage of anti-LGBT+ and anti-immigrant policies. The group also advances numerous subsidiary conspiracy theories, for example claiming that 5G and water-based fluoride are poisoning the country. 

Kurten has also dabbled in more overtly antisemitic politics, complaining in February 2024 that a “Jewess” will “rule over” Mexico, and siding with a Holocaust denier in an online debate. More extreme is the party’s General Secretary Madeleine Hunt, who, under the pseudonym “Mag Magz”, commented under a Telegram post about Israel by stating that “anti-Christianity [and] anti white race” were “Talmudic principles”.

Kurten’s party contests elections, although candidates reliably poll poorly. Its slate of local election candidates has also declined in recent years, fielding 60 in 2023, 40 in 2024 and 23 in 2025. It put up 41 candidates in the 2024 general election, all of whom lost badly, averaging 0% of the national vote share. 

Heritage does, however, have a handful of councillors at the parish level, the lowest tier of local government. In March 2025, the group also gained its first representation at the county level, when Kent Cllr Becki Bruneau left the Conservatives, citing a series of swivel-eyed conspiracy beliefs in her statement and claiming that Heritage would “stop the invasion of our shores”.