The National Housing Party UK (NHPUK) is a minor far-right political party. NHPUK launched in 2021 under the Oldham-based former Britain First activist John Lawrence and Pat McGinnis, a London-based former British National Party (BNP) activist. NHPUK’s two key policies are “a complete halt to permanent settlement immigration and to leave the 1951 UN Refugee Convention”.

Registering as a party in March 2022, NHPUK has since spent much of its time humiliating itself in local elections. This includes McGinnis achieving a single vote in the Camden Council by-election (Hampstead Town ward) in July 2022.

Alongside producing online content for a tiny audience on subjects ranging from NHPUK campaign days to “9/11 trutherism”, the group has also held a number of regional meetings and engaged in small protests, including supporting anti-migrant protests in Leeds in 2023.

In 2024, NHPUK has not fared much better. Whilst McGinnis runs the party’s Twitter account and has grown it to over 50k followers, this does not appear to be translating into success elsewhere. The regular YouTube streams attract minimal views, and Lawrence’s electoral attempt in Oldham’s Hollinwood ward in May resulted in him receiving just 173 votes and coming a distant third. In March, the party held seemingly its sole public meeting of the year in Manchester, attended by fewer than 10 people. NHPUK is going nowhere.