Question: The Guardian recently described how New Party for Britain has no political figurehead, no known membership, no headquarters, no known high flying donors. Why don't you have any of these key features in place yet?

Mark Adams: New Party for Britain isn't even a political party yet. So in that sense, The Guardian is absolutely right. We will register with the electoral commission and field candidates and declare who the leaders are and declare who is behind it all in due course. Let's get back to basics here. The first thing we did is set out a few pertinent questions about whether or not people felt now was the time for a new party for Britain and judging by the many thousands of people who have contacted us since The Sunday Times originally announced that we were asking those questions, I think a lot of people up and down the country think it is time.

Question: The Guardian lists many people who are keen to distance themselves from you, why haven't you found any big names who will go public to say they are behind you yet?

Mark Adams: First of all, when the party is formally launched it will of course have everything you would expect a normal political party to have. So just wait and see who comes out when it's announced. In the meantime, the backers behind this organisation are extremely successful business people in their own right, who do not want to play a part in the political debate. Inevitably if their names were generally available, they would get themselves sucked into the political debate. So they would much rather remain anonymous. Of course when the party is up and running, it will have leaders and those leaders will be available for interview and people will be able to see exactly who they are.

Question: Are you looking to recruit politicians from other political parties?

Mark Adams: The obvious answer you would expect me to give to that is that New Party for Britain would welcome people from all political persuasions, so long as they are committed to the basic principles that New Party is setting out and which are there on the website. They are about promoting a vision of Britain that is democratic, free, an excellent environment for business, a low taxation culture and one which is generally supportive of people's rights, but within a framework of expecting people to recognise they have individual responsibilities as well. Now anybody, whether they are an ordinary member of the public or a recognised politician who agrees with those principles and wants to join will be welcomed.

Question: Exactly how many members of the public have expressed an interest in your cause and do they span the political spectrum?

Mark Adams: As I just said to you, many thousands of people have contacted us via the website and email addresses and by telephone and by post since wefirst announced that we were thinking of establishing a new party. Yes, they pretty much span the political spectrum. I can tell you that not many from the far left have come looking, but you wouldn't expect that given the sensible centre right policies that we've described on the website. But that group apart, pretty much across the spectrum, certainly former supporters both of the Labour party and the Conservative party have expressed serious interest in joining, once the party is established.

Question: From which party do you expect to attract the most supporters?

Mark Adams: I suspect what you'll find that as and when the time comes to stand candidates for election, there will be two types of voter. One will be the disaffected Tory voter who has frankly come to the conclusion that the Conservative party can no longer provide the vision for Britain that they share. But also I think you'll find a number of people who were seduced in 1997 and 2001 into voting for New Labour who now see the Labour party for what it is and will support the vision New Party is setting out.

Question: What will be your unique feature that marks you out from the major political parties?

Mark Adams: When you look at the website, you will see there are some radical suggestions there for changing the way the British political system operates. I would say that the changes to the British constitution are one of the things that mark it out as different.

Question: Having looked at your website, you promise 'far reaching constitutional changes'. Let's take an example, how would you propose to reform parliament?

Mark Adams: One of the things that is self-evidently the case is that people up and down the country are disillusioned with the political establishment and disillusioned with politics. We see that in the much lower turnout at the last general election and we see it in the fact that people continually tell opinion polls they are cynical about politics.

On this precise issue of reforming the Commons, one of the things that is made quite clear on our website is that we want Members of Parliament to engage more with their local communities and in deciding local issues.

Question: How would they do that?

Mark Adams: If you couple that with our suggestion that we certainly don't want anymore tiers of government, possibly we wish to see fewer tiers of government, what I think you get is MPs within their local areas taking decisions within their local areas that are currently taken by other elected officials politicians. Let's be radical for a moment about how we would specifically deal with the constitution in Scotland. In our view there is a pertinent question to be asked about whether you need two sets of elected politicians, one in Westminster, one in Edinburgh, determining matters in Scotland, when arguably it would be much more sensible to have those issues dealt with by one set of elected politicians. I think most people seem to agree that this country has far too many politicians already.

Question: So you may be proposing that the responsibilities currently carried out by MSPs in Edinburgh are given to Scottish MPs in Westminster?

Mark Adams: This question is pushing what we say much further than what we have so far said, but it is in many ways a natural extension of what we've said. It is certainly one of the options being looked at.

Question: You also talk about modernising local government. What sort of measures do you have in mind?

Mark Adams: I think exactly the same approach. We are looking at ways of cutting back on the range of activities local government undertake. We intend to do that in two ways. First of all we believe and we will set out how there are a number of areas where local government is involved but where it doesn't really need to be involved. Secondly, we think there should be a much bigger role for the private sector in delivering services locally. To be fair to the current government and the previous administration there has been a lot of movement in that direction already, but we will push that a lot further and get business involved more in delivering services locally and look to reduce the really quite phenomenal increase in the political culture in local government. The main achievements of five six years of Labour control of local government has been yet a further growth in the number of elected politicians and officials servicing the committees on which they sit.

Question: Will you be playing a part in the local elections in May?

Mark Adams: Clearly it is a huge exercise to mount a local election campaign, so I'd be surprised if New Party was in a position to stand candidates up and down the country in the local elections, but we are looking at the coming elections in May which aren't just the local elections, but elections in Scotland and Wales, and plan to stand candidates in those elections.

Question: When should we expect the party to launch?

Mark Adams: The party will launch in good time, ahead of presenting itself for election before the British people. This clearly means that if it is putting up candidates in May you should expect that launch to be very soon.