Veterans and People's Party

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The Veterans and People’s Party (VPP) was a small political party in the United Kingdom. It was formed in May 2017 by seven military veterans to stand in the 2017 general election and reportedly gained about 8,000 members in its first month. The party described itself as right-wing, nationalist, hard Eurosceptic and paternalistic conservative, with gold as its colour. It was led by George Reid and founded by Damian McAndrew, and it was based in London. The VPP was deregistered by the Electoral Commission in 2022.

In the 2019 local elections, the VPP won its first two councillors from eight candidates.

In Hartlepool Borough Council, the VPP councillor activity involved several coalition changes:
- In September 2019, a VPP councillor who helped run the coalition with Independent Union defected to the Brexit Party, forming a “Brexit and Conservative Coalition.”
- In February 2020, that councillor returned to the VPP after the government’s Brexit deal.
- In May 2019, following defections from Labour to Socialist Labour, the VPP councillor joined a coalition with Conservatives and Independent Union, creating the largest group with 11 councillors, though not a majority.
- In September 2019, with Independent Union colleagues, the councillor joined the Brexit Party again, before returning to the VPP in early 2020.