On fascism

"I am not a Nazi and never have been." Griffin was convicted in 1998 of inciting racial hatred for articles that denied the Holocaust and praised the Waffen-SS.

On immigration

"The indigenous people of Britain have been victims of a genocide in recent months". The BNP leader first publicly referred to a "bloodless genocide'' when commenting in April on the language in the party's "Language and Concepts Discipline" manual, which says that black and Asian Britons should be called "resident foreigners', saying recent mass immigration was denying the English their ownidentity, and that the children of migrants did not become British simply by being born in Britain: "In a very subtle way, it's a sort of bloodless genocide."

Analysis: The BNP claims that within 60 years the "indigenous British will become an ethnic minority in their own country". While it is true that 24% of births in 2008 were to non-UK mothers, foreign-born people make up no more than 11% of the UK's total population. Britain has just experienced the largest wave of immigration in recent history – mostly from Poland – but it is thought that half have already gone home.

On deportation

Griffin told a black member of the audience: "I am very happy for you to stay here. We have said it is time to shut the door because this country is over-crowded, that criminals, bogus asylum seekers and people who are not loyal to this country should be deported. Everyone else can stay."

Analysis: BNP policy says it would deport 2 million people it claims are in Britain illegally, and stop all immigration, bar exceptional cases. But it would also "encourage" voluntary repatriation of legal migrants and "those of foreign descent to return to their lands of ethnic origin". This would cover many millions of British citizens, including presumably Sir Trevor McDonald, whom Griffin professes to admire.

On Churchill and the use of a Spitfire and other wartime imagery

Griffin said: "If Churchill was alive he would belong to the BNP".

Analysis: Churchill's grandson, Nicholas Soames, said in May this year: "They have behaved in a disgusting manner. They should not take my grandfather's name in vain. He would have been appalled by their views and the way they claim to represent the wartime generation. It's nonsense. Were it possible to take action, we would. We find it offensive and disgusting." The BNP uses second world war imagery to propagate an "invasion" thesis: that Britain is being occupied by foreigners, as the Nazis threatened in 1940.

On Israel and Islam

Griffin said the BNP was the only party which, in the clashes between Israel and Gaza, "stood full square behind Israel's right to deal with Hamas terrorists."

Analysis: He has replaced antisemitic rhetoric with Islamophobia. Perhaps the most curious BNP policy is its "ironclad offer" to the Muslim world to give them a free hand in the Middle East if they will take back "all their people currently colonising this country".

On Holocaust denial

He said EU law stopped him from explaining his beliefs on Holocaust denial and that he would be prosecuted in the French and German courts.

Analysis Holocaust denial is not illegal in Britain. He told a court in 1998 that orthodox opinion was that 6 million Jews were gassed: "Orthodox opinion also once held that the Earth is flat".