The Veterans and People's Party (VPP) is a minor

political party in the United Kingdom The Electoral Commission's Register of Political Parties lists the details of political parties registered to fight elections in the United Kingdom, including their registered name. Under current electoral law, including the Registration o ...

. It was founded in mid-May 2017 by seven British military veterans to contest the 2017 United Kingdom general election. In the

2019 United Kingdom local elections Local elections in parts of the United Kingdom were held on Thursday 2 May 2019, with 248 English local councils, six directly elected mayors in England, and all 11 local councils in Northern Ireland being contested. A total of 8,886 counci ...

, the party gained its first two councillors from eight fielded candidates. In September 2019, with the

Independent Union An independent unions is a trade union that represents workers in one plant or company and is free of employer control. (This includes a union representing workers in more than one plant located in two or more states but employed by the same employ ...

councillors, the VPP councillor who made up the coalition at Hartlepool Borough Council defected to the Brexit Party, renaming their already existing coalition with the three Conservative councillors as the "Brexit and Conservative Coalition". In February 2020, its councillor returned to the VPP after the government's Brexit agreement.

Hartlepool Borough Council

In May 2019, following several defections from Labour to Socialist Labour at Hartlepool Borough Council, the party's councillor joined a coalition with the

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and the

, forming the largest grouping with 11 councillors, fewer than needed for control. In September 2019, with Independent Union colleagues, he joined the

Brexit Party Reform UK is a right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. It was founded with support from Nigel Farage in November 2018 as the Brexit Party, advocating hard Euroscepticism and a no-deal Brexit, and was briefly a significant ...

, but returned to the VPP in early 2020.

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