Disbandment
In November 2009, the policy committee of the Free England Party recommended that the party change its civic nationalist stance to becoming an ethnic nationalist party. This was to be put to the AGM on 12 December in York.
In early December 2009 the website of the pro-repatriation English Independence Party, led by Chris Nickerson, began redirecting visiters to an abandoned Free England Party website.
One week before the AGM the FEP leadership offered to hand over full control of the party to the supporters of the civic nationalist stance provided that they could build a new leadership and NEC within three days.
However, on 7 December 2009, after less than two full days, the party leadership announced that the Free England Party would be shut down, "due to lack of activists willing to take on party roles". This was in spite of the fact that the civic members had a new NEC ready to take over.
The Free England Party was de-registered from the Register of Political Parties on 8 June 2009.
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