The Christian Party, which includes the Scottish Christian Party^[1] and the Welsh Christian Party,^[2] is a minor political party in Great Britain. Its leader is Jeff Green.

The Party's mission statement is, “Christians working together to bring Christian concern, goodwill and action into the community, education, business and politics.”^[3]

The Party's website inludes a statement of its policies^[4] which include the following:

• Promote personal and corporate financial responsibility.
• Promote government creation of money to be managed by the Bank of England instead of national indebtedness to commercial banks.

• Change the role of the Social Services to support parental authority rather than weaken it
• Make contraception for minors, without parental approval, illegal
• Re-instate in loco parentis as a cardinal principle of school teaching

• Make private health insurance a visa requirement for migrants
• Oblige private medical insurers to inform the Home Office when a private medical insurance policy linked to a visa is allowed to lapse or expires
• Review Health and Safety legislation and reduce them to more appropriate levels

• Reform the benefit system to eradicate the risk associated with leaving the welfare system and entering work. This would be accomplished by suspending benefit claims for a period of 9 months rather than closing them when an unemployed person gains employment. Within the 9-month period an unemployed person will be able to audit three jobs before their claim is liable to closure.

• Negotiated agreement with the European Union to apply the immigration points system to migrants from the European Union, or in the event of non-agreement declare a unilateral change in immigration policy.
• Make private health insurance a visa requirement for immigrants.
• Initiate a “No (private sector) Home – No Visa” policy.

• Challenge the ‘business as usual’ approach where increasing levels of consumption have eaten into the ecological capital of the world.
• Call for the restoration of Sunday as a day of rest, to allow reflection by individuals and communities on the role they have to play. A re-ordering of values is needed.
• Seek a new global financial system which supports fair and sustainable use of resources.

• Support radical cuts in the public-sector workforce in order to reduce both the size of government and the size of the government spending.
• Support a radical re-employment and training programme so that public-sector workers are not thrown on the ‘scrap heap’, but are empowered for a smooth transition into the private sector.
• Call for a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty within the first year of the new Parliament.

• Oppose abortion
• Reject all attempts to re-define marriage
• Support funding for hospices which provide terminal or palliative care for adults, children and infants

• Maintain a well resourced military with a nuclear deterrent
• Support the doctrine of a ‘just war’, but not military adventurism
• Withdraw British troops from Afghanistan

In Wales, the party wants to see Wales represented on the Union Flag. The Christian Party appreciates that the red dragon would not be allowed on the flag of union, so instead promotes the inclusion of the Flag of Saint David.

Candidates from the party stood in Sedgefield by-election, 2007 and Ealing Southall by-election, 2007. The party got 26,575 votes (0.7%) in the 2007 Scottish Parliament election and 8,693 votes (0.9%) in the 2007 Welsh Assembly Election; it did not come close to winning any seats.

Hargreaves stood for the party at the Haltemprice and Howden by-election, 2008 and got 76 votes or 0.3% of the total votes cast.

The party competed in the 2009 European elections. Their campaign was mainly focussed in London. The British Humanist Society had put up adverts on London buses saying there's probably no God, now stop worrying and enjoy your life. The party then produces similar adverts saying there definitely is a God, so join the Christian Party and enjoy your life.'^[14] The advert received over 1,000 complaints. On election day, they retained one deposit in the London region through gaining 51,336 votes (2.9%).

In the 2010 United Kingdom general election, the party stood 71 candidates, gaining 18,623 votes. The party gained the most votes in the Slough, where Sunil Chaudhary achieved 495 votes and 1.0%.

In June 2012 legal action was enacted on the Christian Party treasurer by the Electoral Commission of the UK for £2750 for failure to supply accounts for two years as well as for failure to pay previous fines.^[15] The party de-registered the following month. Hargreaves was given a further 6 months to supply accounts, but failed to do so and was consequently fined a further £3000 on top of a previous fine of £1125 for failing to meet the deadline for provision of accounts.^[16]

As a result, the party was de-registered in July 2012 and after the regulatory 6 months had elapsed, a new party was registered under a new party RPP with the new leadership of Jeff Green.

The newly registered Christian Party contested the Eastleigh by-election in February 2013 after the resignation of Chris Huhne with their candidate Kevin Milburn, a retired former prison officer and health care worker who stood against same-sex marriage.^[17] He received 163 votes (0.4%).

The party was registered by the Electoral Commission on 29 April 2004, with the name 'Christian Party "Proclaiming Christ's Lordship!"'.^[2] It has registered nine Party Descriptions, and two translations, to be used on ballot papers, namely:

• Christian Party
• Christian Party (Scotland)
• Scottish Christian Party
• Scottish Christian Party "Proclaiming Christ's Lordship"
• The Christian Party
• The Scottish Christian Party
• Welsh Christian Party
• Welsh Christian Party "Proclaiming Christ's Lordship"
• Plaid Gristionogol Cymru
• Plaid Gristionogol Cymru "Datgan Arglwyddiaeth Crist"

Maggie Harrold is the Party Treasurer and Dr. Donald Boyd is the Nominating Officer and leader of the Scottish Christian Party. The leader of the Welsh Christian Party is Revd. David Griffiths.

The party originated as Operation Christian Vote, which was founded by George Hargreaves (politician), a Pentecostal Minister and former songwriter, in May 2004. It was based in Stornoway, Scotland.^[18] The party contested the 2004 European Elections in the Scotland constituency,^[19] gaining 1.8% of the popular vote.

Hargreaves was a candidate for Operation Christian Vote in the Birmingham Hodge Hill by-election, where he received 90 votes, last place in a field of seven candidates, and lost his deposit. In the 2005 general election, Hargreaves stood in Na h-Eileanan an Iar, where he placed fourth, ahead of the Conservatives, and retained his deposit with 1,048 votes, or 7.6%.

The group was involved in protests, such as at Glasgow.^[20]

The party became known as the Christian Party at the end of 2005.

• Alliance for Democracy
• Religion in the United Kingdom
• Politics of Scotland

• The Christian Party website
• Scottish Christian party website
• Welsh Christian party website
• Electoral Commission record for the Christian Party "Proclaiming Christ's Lordship"
• The Christian Party "Proclaiming Christ's Lordship": Statement of accounts for the year ending 31 December 2006
• Highlands and Islands Christian Party website
• 2007 Scottish Christian Party Manifesto