FAR-RIGHT outfit the BNP is no longer a political party, having failed to register with the Electoral Commission.

The commission removed the BNP from its register of British parties yesterday after the group failed to submit the required annual notification and £25 fee due on Wednesday.

Unless the racist group submits a fresh application it will no longer be able to field candidates and its name, descriptions and emblem won’t be allowed on ballot papers.

In 2009 the BNP held more than 50 council seats and had two MEPs but has been in steep decline ever since.

It fielded just eight candidates in the 2015 general election, down from 338 in 2010.

Former leader Nick Griffin was replaced by Adam Walker months after losing the party’s last European Parliament seat in an electoral meltdown in 2014.

Mr Griffin, who accepted at the time that the BNP could be considered racist, was later expelled for allegedly “trying to cause disunity” in a bid to destabilise the organisation.

The BNP said the negligence was a clerical error and it would submit the necessary paperwork in the next few days.