Biography
Nick Griffin was born in Barnet and grew up in Halesworth in rural Suffolk, England.
Initially educated at two Suffolk private schools, St Felix School (in Southwold) and Woodbridge School.
Nick studied history and then law at Downing College, Cambridge and boxed while at Cambridge. He was awarded a full blue for representing the University against Oxford three years running, losing the first year on points and winning in the next two with first round stoppages.
Nick graduated with an honours degree in Law.
Nick is married to Jackie, a specialist nurse, living in Wales. They have four children, now more or less grown up. All are bi-lingual in English and Welsh.
Mr Griffin was elected to lead the BNP by a large majority vote of the membership in a secret ballot in September 1999, and re-elected with nearly 90% of the vote in 2007.
Tweets
You have received a new message http://t.co/bHJmvXC3" 10:54pm#- St Catherine's, from the old fish market, under a full moon in a very frosty Brussels." 10:52pm#
- . . . but it is not, and can never be, part of Europe. Good fences make good neighbours." 10:23pm#
- For avoidance of doubt, Azerbaijan is quite a go-ahead country & its 5% Christian minority appears well-treated . . ." 10:22pm#
- . . . work wonders for poverty and community cohesion in Belfast. Where do they find these arseholes?" 10:10pm#
- And Ulster Unionist peer Lord Laird wants Azerbaijan, as well as Turkey, to join the EU. That'd . . ." 10:09pm#
- . . . of such historically ignorant 'Western' meddling in Russia's sphere of influence." 9:59pm#
- . . . state of Azerbaijan. Not so much in Russia's backyard as in the Bear's kitchen. No good will come . . ." 9:58pm#
- Reading some dead tree, I see that NATO is cultivating an ever closer relationship with the Muslim . . ." 9:56pm#
- I dread to think how many trees die each year to provide all the publications in Brussels that no one reads." 9:19pm#