Jordan then founded the National Socialist Movement in 1962 (this group was later renamed the British Movement in 1968) with John Tyndall as its leader. A meeting in Trafalgar Square on 2 July 1962 of supporters was disrupted by opponents who Jordan described as being "Jews and Communists", leading to a riot. He was dismissed by the board of governors from the Coventry school where he taught in August 1962, after a period of suspension which had begun after the events in Trafalgar Square.