Veterans and People's Party
The Veterans and People's Party is a minor centrist political party in the United Kingdom. It was founded in mid-May 2017 by seven British military veterans to contest in the 2017 United Kingdom general election, and claims to have gained 8,000 members in its first month of existence.
In the 2019 United Kingdom local elections, the party gain its first two councillors out of a total of 8 fielded candidates.
In September 2019, along with all Independent Union 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 to the "Brexit and Conservative Coalition".In May 2019, following multiple defections from Labour to Socialist Labour at Hartlepool Borough Council, the party's councillor joined a coalition with the Conservatives and the Independent Union, forming the largest grouping with 11 councillors, 6 shy of control.
