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Edgar Vincent Griffin is an English politician, previously of the Conservative Party.
Griffin was a long-standing Conservative Party member, and former councillor. He served as councillor for the St Johns Wood Terrace ward on the St Marylebone Borough Council, from 1959 to 1965. His wife, Jean, has stood as both a councillor and parliamentary candidate for the British National Party, standing in Enfield North at the 1997 general election and in Chingford & Woodford Green for the 2001 general election. Their son, Nick, has been Chairman of the BNP since 1999.
Following the 2001 general election, and William Hague's resignation as Conservative party leader, Griffin became vice-president in Wales of Iain Duncan Smith's party leadership campaign, despite the fact that Griffin's wife had just stood against Duncan Smith in his Chingford and Woodford Green seat. Griffin was subsequently expelled from that position, and from the Conservative Party itself, when it was discovered that "he assisting the British National Party" by taking BNP-related calls at home on behalf of his wife.
Griffin has been a Freemason since 1947. Among many senior Masonic appointments, he has been Worshipful Master and Worshipful Commander. Only two other Masons have held Grand Rank for longer than Edgar Griffin, who received the Grand Rank of Assistant Grand Inner Guard in 1962.
External links
- Conservative Party statement on Edgar Griffin's expulsion
- telegraph.co.uk "Expelled Tory laments 'one silly mistake'"
- guardian.co.uk "Duncan Smith sacks backer with BNP link"
- BBC: Edgar Griffin Interview in full
References
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1507390.stm
- Master Masons of North Wales "A double presentation to our longest serving Brother"
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