 Simon Darby, at the time the BNP organiser in the area, refused to reveal the reason for her expulsion but stated that they had nothing to do with her family background.Later in 2006, she set up the New Nationalist Party (NNP), of which she was the Chairman until the party's closure less than a year after its founding.She stood as a NNP candidate for Kingstanding in the 2007 Birmingham City Council election.