The Independent Group of Members of the Legislative Council was a right-wing political party in
Kenya
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History
Led by
Llewellyn Briggs
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, the Independent Group was a European party that called for ministerial positions to be awarded without consideration for the racial makeup of the cabinet, using the slogan "Merit and Ability",
[Kenya from Mau Mau to Independence]
Michael Farquhar effectively seeking to exclude Africans from government. It nominated ten candidates for the fourteen European seats in the
1956 general elections, winning eight of them.
["Results of the General Election in Kenya", ''East Africa and Rhodesia'', 4 October 1956, p150]
In August 1959 Briggs formed the
United Party, bringing together the Independent Group with former members of the Federal Independence Party,
[George Bennett & Carl Gustav Rosberg (1961) ''The Kenyatta Election: Kenya 1960-1961'', Oxford University Press, p16] which had failed to win a seat in the 1956 elections.
References
{{Kenyan political parties
Defunct political parties in Kenya
Political parties disestablished in 1959
1959 disestablishments in Kenya