In 1999 it had a few hundred members, including previous supporters of James Goldsmith's Referendum Party.

This was the last election (general or by-election) that the Referendum Party contested; it wound up soon afterwards.

The idea of the Referendum Party was simply to force the issue right up the agenda - and he did that, no question about that.

West had previously stood for the Referendum Party in the same constituency in 1997.

He founded the Referendum Party a year ago to do the same thing here.

From 1995 to 1997, she headed the press office for the Referendum Party which polled over 800,000 votes in 1997.

He was a parliamentary candidate for the Referendum Party.

It suggested that the Referendum Party might field as many as 400 candidates for the 651-member Parliament.

In the general election the Referendum Party stood in 546 constituencies.

In 1997 he became the Referendum Party's leader following Goldsmith's death, although the party would soon become defunct.