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22 May 2014updated 21 Jul 2014 4:56pm

Nick Griffin resigns: Why has the BNP collapsed?

Tim Wigmore visits Stoke-on-Trent to investigate the reasons for the BNP's decline - and wonders whether Ukip stand to benefit.

By Tim Wigmore

(Photo By Nick Griffin arrives to lay flowers close to the scene where Drummer Lee Rigby was killed, on May 24, 2013. Photograph: Getty Images.)

Editor’s note: it was announced on 21 July that Nick Griffin has stood down as the leader of the BNP. His replacement is a former schoolteacher called Adam Walker.

 

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