National Front (NF)

The National Front was a far-right and openly racist organisation that formed as an alliance of several small far-right groups that were operating on the fringe of British politics in the 1960s. These groups included the British National Party and the League of Empire Loyalists. 

It rose to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, organising marches and standing candidates at local and national elections. 

While not a focus of the SDS, it was for many anti-fascist groups that the SDS did spy on a preoccupying concern.

HN303 Peter Collins HN303 'Peter Collins' ‘Peter Collins’ is the cover name of a former undercover officer who joined the Special Demonstration Squad in 1973. He infiltrated the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) from January 1974 until 1977. Uniquely, for an SDS undercover deployed in the 1970s, he also infiltrated the far-right Legion of St George and National Front in 1975. However, this was at the behest of the WRP, not the police. He is dead and his real name has been restricted.  was sent to spy on the group not by the Metropolitan Police, but by the group he was sent to monitor - The Workers Revolutionary Party. 

The documents published by the Inquiry relating to the NF, reflect the SDS' interest in the groups opposing them rather than any sustained concern about the far-right group themself.