The National Rebirth Party (NRP) is a fascist microparty led by Alek Yerbury, an oddball would-be dictator now based in Manchester.

The NRP, which gained party status in February 2024, is predicated on dubious strategy and is staffed by figures extreme even by the standards of the far right. While it lacks electoral prospects, there is reason to be concerned about extremists within the group.

Alek Yerbury and the National Support Detachment

Yerbury was privately educated in Adelaide, Australia before serving in the British Army. He joined the neo-Nazi group Patriotic Alternative (PA) in the autumn of 2021 and became a regular public speaker, receiving negative press for his resemblance to Adolf Hitler. 

Yerbury harbours an intense hatred of politicians and left-wing activists. HOPE not hate has previously exposed his appalling statements about the murder of Jo Cox, a Yorkshire MP assassinated by a neo-Nazi in 2016, and others in which he advocated the use of firearms on migrants, the internment of his political enemies in forced labour camps and much else. 

He split with PA in February 2023 after a spat with the leadership and allied himself with a circle of former English Defence League (EDL) activists in Yorkshire. This included Scott Pitts, who would act as lieutenant throughout the year, and David Smaller, head of the Yorkshire Patriots, an EDL splinter group. 

He subsequently launched the National Support Detachment (NSD) that April in the hopes of establishing a faux-military force that would confront left-wing activists. Unsurprisingly, the reality was a far cry from the disciplined “NSD platoons” Yerbury had envisaged and he spent the year addressing a series of diminishing anti-migrant demonstrations across the north, only to be outnumbered by counter-protestors. 

This phase culminated in the calamitous protest camp outside RAF Scampton, a site earmarked to house asylum seekers, in the winter of 2023-24. The camp was defined by squalor, squabbles, arrests and accusations of stolen funds and substance abuse, as Yerbury desperately tried to control the chaos. The outcome of this months-long effort was the total alienation of any local sympathy his campaign may once have had.

The NRP

Abandoning street protests, Yerbury successfully registered the NRP in February 2024 and now heads a political party both delusional and extreme. Abandoning street protests, Yerbury successfully registered the NRP in February 2024 and now heads a political party both delusional and extreme. The NRP forgoes local elections, aiming instead to win Parliamentary seats in urban areas in the belief that this strategy could deliver national power in 10-15 years. 

However, the NRP makes little effort to broaden its support. For example, the group’s startlingly authoritarian manifesto states that “only people of British heritage or lineage” would qualify for citizenship and that “foreigners whose presence is harmful to the interests of the national community be expelled, without exception”. Moreover, citizens “who refuse to carry out their duties will be stripped of their rights”. The death penalty would be handed to those who commit “crimes against the nation and its people”, which includes those who commit “habitual low-level crime”. This definition would seem to include several people Yerbury has rubbed shoulders with at his own events.

The NRP operates an open door policy to fascist fantasists, and has recruited a small collection of activists with pasts in PA, the EDL, Britain First, the BNP, the National Front, the British Movement, White Vanguard, the Homeland Party and more. It has established small branches in Birmingham, Hull, Leeds, London, Nottingham, Cornwall, Portsmouth and Manchester, which engage in meetings and street stalls through which they distribute the party magazine. 

However, the party has failed to meet Yerbury’s grandiose aims. As of January 2026, the party has roughly 120 members. Numerous branches have been announced but either achieved little or failed to materialise. The NRP’s first national conference in September 2025 was attended by fewer than 40 people, and the party is yet to contest its first election of any kind. Despite his criticisms of online activism, Yerbury is best known for his unsolicited, negative interjections on X, a fact that has done much to alienate him among the wider far right. 

The NRP’s outmoded branding, eccentric leadership, dubious strategy and its obvious extremism will ensure it is confined to the outside political fringes. However, Yerbury and his followers are pushing a dangerous kind of politics. Yerbury and others within the NRP have previously endorsed violence, and we have identified several individuals convicted for the country-wide riots and disorder of 2024 who have previously rubbed shoulders with Yerbury and his allies at various events. 

At present, the NRP is engaging with the political process. However, it has potential to act as a crucible for violent extremism, especially if disillusionment sets in following its inevitable failures at the polls.