Northumbria
Medieval kingdom of the Angles
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| 2023 | The party ran two candidates in local elections in the Headingley and Hyde Park ward of Leeds and the City Centre South ward of Liverpool, but neither were elected. |
| November 19 2023 | Philip Proudfoot joined the Green Party after leaving the Northern Independence Party. |
| 2022 | Manchester Airport handled 23.3 million passengers, representing 10.5% of all UK passenger traffic and confirming its status as the busiest airport outside London. |
| 2022 | Doncaster Sheffield Airport closed to commercial flights, marking another significant reduction in Northern England's airport infrastructure. |
| 2022 | The Northern Independence Party ran eight candidates in local elections across various wards in Barnsley, Leeds, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sefton, Sheffield, and Wirral, but none were elected. |
| 2022 | The Northern Independence Party participated in the Wakefield by-election with Christopher Jones as their candidate, receiving 84 votes and finishing 14th out of 15 candidates, losing their deposit. |
| 2022 | The Northern Independence Party expanded its proposed Northumbria geography to include the borough of High Peak in northern Derbyshire. |
| July 2022 | Philip Proudfoot stepped down as party leader due to professional commitments and was replaced by David Heaven. |
| 2021 | The party endorsed four independent candidates in local elections in the Derby and Litherland wards of Sefton and the Pendleton & Charlestown ward of Salford, but none were elected. |
| 2021 | Northern England recorded a combined population of 15.5 million in the national census. |
| 2021 | The Northern Independence Party (NIP) attempts to stand a candidate, Thelma Walker, in the Hartlepool by-election, but is prevented due to pending Electoral Commission registration. Walker runs as an independent and loses her deposit with 250 votes. |
| June 30 2021 | NIP announced its official registration with the Electoral Commission. |
| March 28 2021 | The Northern Independence Party selected Thelma Walker, a former Labour MP, as its candidate for the Hartlepool by-election. Due to not being registered with the Electoral Commission, she ran as an Independent and received 250 votes, finishing eighth with 0.84% of the vote. |
| March 24 2021 | The party reapplied for registration with the Electoral Commission. |
| February 12 2021 | NIP first applied to the Electoral Commission for registration, but the application was rejected for being incomplete. |
| 2020 | Carlisle Lake District Airport closed to commercial flights, further reducing air connectivity in the North of England. |
| October 22 2020 | Philip Proudfoot founded the Northern Independence Party (NIP) along with Evie McGovern and other former Labour activists, motivated by concerns about centralization of power in London and the North-South divide. |
| 2019 | Harold Elletson endorsed the incumbent Labour MP Cat Smith in the general election. |
| 2015 | Harold Elletson contests the Lancaster and Fleetwood constituency in the general election, receiving 0.4% of the vote and finishing last. |
| 2015 | Harold Elletson co-founds the Northern Party to campaign for better representation for Northern England. |
| 2014 | Blackpool Airport closed to commercial flights, reflecting the broader challenges faced by regional airports in Northern England. |
| September 30 2014 | Harold Elletson launches The Campaign for the North, an all-party pressure group aiming to re-create the ancient Kingdom of Northumbria as a federal state within the United Kingdom. |
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