Eddy Butler - Second BNP Tenure

Second BNP Tenure

Although appointed as the Freedom Party's Campaign Director, Butler subsequently returned to the BNP in 2003, again as its National Elections Officer, played a part in the party's campaigns in the 2006 local elections. In 2009 he was the party's lead candidate for the European Parliament election in the Eastern region, in which the BNP's party list achieved 6.1% of the vote. He was the party's candidate for Harlow in the 2010 General Election. and also a candidate in Barking and Dagenham in the London borough council elections, held on the same day.

On 18 June 2010, Butler announced that he would challenge the current leader, Nick Griffin, for the leadership (office of National Chairman) of the BNP the following month. On 11 August 2010, it was announced that he had not obtained the 840 nominations required to trigger an election.

On 13 October 2010, Butler was expelled from the BNP, allegedly for breaching the party's code of conduct. He was denied a disciplinary tribunal on the grounds that he had less than two years' continuous membership of the party at the time of his alleged offence(s).