the Center for New Community and other groups". This involved Buchanan losing three-quarters of his Northern Virginia campaign staff. Cotterill became an associate of William Pierce, editing one issue of his Resistance magazine in 1999; he was also the U.S. distributor for Right Now! magazine. Cotterill was by now defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "key British neofascist". In 2002, Cotterill was excluded from the U.S. for ten years. England First Party years Back in England, Cotterill broke with the BNP and in 2004 founded the England First Party (EFP). He publishes and edits an ethnic nationalist bimonthly magazine called Heritage and Destiny. He was elected councillor for Meadowhead on Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council in the 2006 local elections as leader of the England First Party, defeating the incumbent Labour councillor by more than 400 votes. However, Cotterill resigned the seat in May 2007 and also stood down from the party leadership. In the Preston local council elections in 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012, Cotterill stood as the EFP candidate. In 2009 he was a candidate for the Preston East division of Lancashire County Council. Media coverage On 7 May 2019, Cotterill was interviewed for an article about the UK far right published in the Financial Times. References External links Heritage and Destiny website National Front (UK) politicians Alt-right politicians in the United Kingdom British National Party politicians Councillors in Lancashire Living people 1960 births Leaders of political parties in the United Kingdom