Family background and early activity
Brons is of British and German ancestry. He has a great-grandfather from Germany.[2] Brons was born in Hackney, East London, spending his early childhood in sidcup, on the outskirts of London, before his family moved to Harrogate when he was 11. He attended at Harrogate Grammar school until the age of 16, when he left to join the civil service, where he remained for 16 months before following part-time A Levels in law and economics at Harrogate College. He studied politics at the University of York, graduating in 1970.[3]Andrew Brons began his political career at seventeen, when in 1964 he joined the National Socialist Movement,[4] a Neo-Nazi organisation founded on Adolf Hitler's birthday by Colin Jordan. Searchlight in 1980 published two letters Brons had written in 1965 to Colin Jordan's wife, in which he firstly reported meeting an NSM member who "mentioned such activities as bombing synagogues", stating in response to this that: "On this subject I have a dual view, in that I realise that he is well intentioned, I feel that our public image may suffer considerable damage as a result of these activities. I am however open to correction on this point.";[5][6] the second letter requested materials such as a swastika, a copy of Horst-Wessel-Lied, and posters and stickers in furtherance of Brons' goal of forming a local NSM group.
