Anti-Federalist League
The Anti-Federalist League (AFL) was a small cross-party organisation in the United Kingdom, formed in 1991 to campaign against the Maastricht Treaty.The main founder of the Anti-Federalist League was Alan Sked, lecturer at the London School of Economics, leading figure in the Bruges Group and former official of the Liberal Party.[2] The Maastricht Treaty, which greatly increased the powers of the European Commission, was widely unpopular according to opinion polls, but all three of the main parties had pledged to support its ratification in the House of Commons.[3] Members of the League included future UKIP leaders Nigel Farage and Gerard Batten.The League stood seventeen candidates in the 1992 general election, but failed to make any impact or attract any press attention.