BNP leader Nick Griffin abandons plan to go to palace party

May 27th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk

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The leader of the far-right British National party, Nick Griffin, yesterday sought to salvage some advantage from a humiliating snub by announcing that he planned to "withdraw" from a Buckingham Palace garden party from which he had been publicly barred.

Griffin had been invited to the event, to be hosted by the Queen in July, by the party's sole representative on the London assembly, Richard Barnbrook, who was nominated with five other assembly members to receive a pair of tickets to one of three parties this summer.

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