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League of Empire Loyalists
The League of Empire Loyalists (LEL) was a British pressure group (also called a "ginger group" in Britain and the Commonwealth of Nations), established in 1954, which campaigned against the dissolution of the British Empire. The League was a small group of current or former members of the Conservative Party led by Arthur K. Chesterton, a former leading figure in the British Union of Fascists, who had served under Sir Oswald Mosley. The League found support from some Conservative Party members, although they were disliked very much by the leadership.〔S. Taylor, ''The National Front in English Politics'', London: Macmillan, 1982, p. 12〕
==Formation==
Chesterton established the group in 1954 on the far right of the Conservative Party, effectively as a reaction to the more liberal forms of Toryism in evident at the time, as typified by the policies of R. A. Butler.〔Martin Walker, ''The National Front'', Glasgow: Fontana, 1977, pp. 28-29〕 Chesterton feared the growth of the Soviet Union and of the United States. He concluded that Bolshevism and American-style capitalism were actually in alliance as part of a Jewish-led conspiracy against the British Empire, a mindset that informed the LEL from the beginning.〔Walker, ''The National Front'', p. 29〕 The wide-reaching critiques that this conspiracy theory utilised meant that the LEL won membership from various sectors of right-wing opinion including former BUF activists like Chesterton himself and Barry Domvile, traditionalist patriots like General Sir Richard Hilton and young radicals like John Tyndall, John Bean, Colin Jordan and Martin Webster.〔Walker, ''The National Front'', p. 30〕 Indeed in its early years the LEL succeeded in attracting some leading members of the establishment to its ranks, including Field-Marshal Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Lieutenant-General Sir Balfour Oliphant Hutchison and former British People's Party election candidate Air Commodore G.S. Oddie.〔John Bean, ''Many Shades of Black - Inside Britain's Far Right'', London: New Millennium, 1999, p. 99〕
Although the LEL actively supported an independent candidate who was a member at the Lewisham North by-election, 1957 it was not a political party.〔
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