Article: If you think BNP chairman Nick Griffin's views on multicultural Britain are repellent, just read what his own wife has to say about him. 'He's never had a proper job. I've been the one going out every day working while he is playing stupid politics. I work with Asian nurses and ethnic minorities - and I sometimes hate being talked about as the wife of the BNP leader'.

Byline: DOMINIC CARMAN

Earlier this year, chants of 'Leader! Leader!' resonated outside Leeds Crown Court.

Not quite Mussolini nodding to cries of 'Duce!' at Rome's Palazzo Venezia, nor Hitler receiving a rapturous Reichstag ovation. But amid a sea of black-coated, shaven-headed thugs, Nick Griffin, chairman of the British National Party, triumphantly saluted a small platoon of flag-waving supporters.

After securing a not guilty verdict on two charges of using words or behaviour likely to incite racial hatred, he now faces a retrial on two other charges where the jury failed to agree a verdict.

Today, Griffin is arguably just where he ...

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