The Independent Group of Members of the Legislative Council was a right-wing political party in

Kenya Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, Kenya is the 27th-most-populous country in the world and the 7th most populous in Africa. ...

History

Led by Llewellyn Briggs, the Independent Group was a European party that called for ministerial positions to be awarded without consideration for the racial makeup of the cabinet, using the slogan "Merit and Ability",Kenya from Mau Mau to Independence
Michael Farquhar effectively seeking to exclude Africans from government. It nominated ten candidates for the fourteen European seats in the 1956 general elections, winning eight of them."Results of the General Election in Kenya", ''East Africa and Rhodesia'', 4 October 1956, p150 In August 1959 Briggs formed the United Party, bringing together the Independent Group with former members of the Federal Independence Party,George Bennett & Carl Gustav Rosberg (1961) ''The Kenyatta Election: Kenya 1960-1961'', Oxford University Press, p16 which had failed to win a seat in the 1956 elections.

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{{Kenyan political parties Defunct political parties in Kenya Political parties disestablished in 1959 1959 disestablishments in Kenya