A senior official from the UK Independence Party gave money to the far-Right British National Party and met the party's leader.

David Abbott, a general practitioner who serves on Ukip's ruling national executive committee, made a donation to American Friends of BNP while he was living and working in the US.

He also attended a meeting in America at which Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, was a guest speaker and the two men met afterwards. Later, having returned to Britain, Dr Abbott attended an annual dinner of the Trafalgar Club, a fund-raising group for the BNP, at which Mr Griffin was again present.

Dr Abbott, who used to live in Oregon and who still works in America for part of the year, met Mr Griffin in the US at a meeting of American Renaissance, described by critics as a white supremacist group.............

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