"role in the party, while Evans' contract for her policy role came to an end. Richardson was re-instated in June 2015. No candidates declared their intention to stand during the time Farage resigned and was reinstated as leader three days later, although media speculation identified several possible candidates. Following a worse-than-expected result in the Oldham West and Royton by-election, Carswell told the BBC that the Party needs a ""fresh face"" as leader, and called for UKIP to become a party that is not seen as ""unpleasant"" and ""socially illiberal"". As a consequence, Carswell was asked to explain himself at the"
"Lidia Gouniakova, another Russian national, accused him of having been unfaithful to her too, reportedly having left her for Tatiana Smurova, who became his third wife. Henry Bolton (British politician) Henry David Bolton (born 2 March 1963) is a British politician who was the Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 29 September 2017 to 17 February 2018. He is a former British Army lance corporal, Territorial Army officer and police officer who has worked in a number of roles related to border management strategies. He became UKIP leader after winning the party's 2017 leadership election, and gave himself"
"and European Parliamentary elections as a UKIP candidate: UK Parliament elections European Parliament elections Paul Nuttall Paul Andrew Nuttall (born 30 November 1976) is a British politician who is MEP for North West England and was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from November 2016 to June 2017. Nuttall was a Conservative Party candidate in a council election in Sefton before joining UKIP in 2004. He became deputy leader of UKIP in November 2010 and the party's spokesperson for education, life skills and training in July 2014. He was elected party leader in the 2016 leadership election. A"
"Paul Nuttall Paul Andrew Nuttall (born 30 November 1976) is a British politician who is MEP for North West England and was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from November 2016 to June 2017. Nuttall was a Conservative Party candidate in a council election in Sefton before joining UKIP in 2004. He became deputy leader of UKIP in November 2010 and the party's spokesperson for education, life skills and training in July 2014. He was elected party leader in the 2016 leadership election. A prominent eurosceptic, Nuttall has called for the establishment of an English parliament. He favours"
"Henry Bolton (British politician) Henry David Bolton (born 2 March 1963) is a British politician who was the Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 29 September 2017 to 17 February 2018. He is a former British Army lance corporal, Territorial Army officer and police officer who has worked in a number of roles related to border management strategies. He became UKIP leader after winning the party's 2017 leadership election, and gave himself the additional role of Defence spokesman in January 2018. Bolton was removed as party leader in February 2018, following his relationship with a party member, and"
"Steve Crowther Stephen James Crowther (born January 1957) was the acting leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). On 9 June 2017, he succeeded Paul Nuttall who stepped down after the party failed to win any seats in the 2017 UK general election. Crowther had previously been UKIP party chairman, a position from which he resigned in July 2016 a few weeks after the EU referendum. In 2014, as part of UKIP's efforts to avoid growing embarrassment from online racist comments by members, he advised members not to join Facebook or Twitter. In late 2015, he was called the ""absentee"
"him, but resigned after 18 days, triggering another leadership election. Held in November 2016, it was won by Paul Nuttall. Nuttall led the party into the 2017 UK general election, but resigned after UKIP's vote share fell from 12.6% to 1.8% and the party failed to win any parliamentary seats. Henry Bolton was elected to succeed Nuttall in September 2017. In January 2018, UKIP's NEC passed a motion of no confidence in Bolton, following controversy about his personal life. Bolton refused to step down, which triggered an emergency general meeting. This meeting was held on 17 February 2018, and those"
"for speeches. Batten was the official UKIP candidate standing against Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May in the Maidenhead constituency at the 2017 general election. Out of thirteen candidates, he finished in fifth place with 871 votes, and a 1.5% share of the vote. In the General Election 2015 he stood in Romford, coming second with 22.8% of the vote. Gerard Batten Gerard Joseph Batten (born 27 March 1954) is a British politician who has been the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) since February 2018. He is a Member of the European Parliament representing the European parliamentary constituency of"
"was appointing Titford as party chairman for an interim period. Before entering politics he was a businessman. He was president of the National Association of Funeral Directors. Jeffrey Titford Jeffrey William Titford (born 24 October 1933, West Mersea, Essex) is a British politician who served as leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2000 until 2002. He served again as interim leader in September to November 2010, following the resignation of Lord Pearson of Rannoch. He was also a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England from 1999 to 2009. Before joining UKIP he had"
"he was dismissed as leader. The same day, he was replaced as leader on an interim basis by Gerard Batten until a new leadership election could be held. Batten stood unopposed and his election as permanent UKIP leader was announced on 14 April 2018. In the 2018 local elections, UKIP lost 124 of the 126 seats it was defending, and gained a single seat in Derby for a net loss 123. MEP James Carver left UKIP to sit as an independent on 28 May 2018, becoming the sixth member of UKIP's MEP contingent to leave the party since 2014. Under"
"capacity from October to November 2016. UKIP Frontbench Team The UK Independence Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. The front bench team is divided into departmental sub-units, the principal ones being the economy, foreign policy and immigration. Sometimes the front bench team consists of more than just the principal positions. UKIP Leader Gerard Batten, Leader of the UK Independence Party announced his front bench team in March 2018. Henry Bolton, elected leader 29 September 2017, announced his front bench on 18 October 2017. Following revelations about Henry Bolton's affair with a woman accused of racism a number"
"back on a sound financial footing after an appeal to members raised almost £300,000. The party was also able to pay an outstanding legal bill. In addition, UKIP also saw its first significant membership rise in two years, with over 900 members joining during this time period. On 14 April 2018, Gerard Batten was elected unopposed as the Leader of UKIP. In a statement issued upon his appointment as Leader he said: ""I received the backing of all three UKIP Lords, our major donors, our MEPs, our London and Welsh Assembly Members, and party activists and members from all over"
"then newly appointed as Party Leader. Following the election of Henry Bolton as leader of UKIP in October 2017, Whittle left the role of deputy leader and was appointed UKIP spokesman for London affairs. He resigned as London spokesman on 22 January 2018, following Bolton's refusal to stand down after a vote of no confidence in his leadership by UKIP's National Executive Committee. In December 2018, he resigned from UKIP in protest at Gerard Batten's leadership. Peter Whittle (politician) Peter Robin Whittle AM (born 6 January 1961) is a British politician. Between November 2016 and October 2017, he was the"
"Chairman"" by Matthew Goodwin in his sequel book on the history of UKIP. Crowther has been the UKIP candidate for North Devon three times. In the 2017 general election he polled the second fewest votes. He is a retired trade journalist and writer who ran an advertising agency in London. Considered as an interim leader of UKIP, Crowther said he would launch the process for the election of a more permanent party leader. In December 2018, he resigned from UKIP. UK Parliament elections Steve Crowther Stephen James Crowther (born January 1957) was the acting leader of the UK Independence Party"
"leader of UKIP in September 2016 as his successor. She resigned from the leadership of the party on 4 October 2016, 18 days after being elected. On 21 November 2016, James announced that she was leaving UKIP and would henceforth sit as an Independent. The length of her tenure was met with significant public and press ridicule. James was born in Bedford in 1959, where her father was an engineer and her mother a housewife. She was educated at Rochester Grammar School, Kent and Thames Valley University, Slough. James spent three decades working in the health industry, where she established"
"supporter of the successful campaign for a vote in favour of leaving the EU in the UK EU membership referendum. On 4 July 2016, Farage again announced his resignation as leader of UKIP, triggering a leadership election. Diane James was elected to succeed him, but she resigned as leader after just 18 days and Farage became interim leader on 5 October 2016. A second leadership election was held in November, which was won by Paul Nuttall, who thus succeeded Farage. Farage was ranked second in ""The Daily Telegraph""'s Top 100 most influential right-wingers poll in October 2013, behind Prime Minister"
"UKIP to win the European Parliament election with 4,376,635 votes, the first time a UK political party other than Labour or Conservatives had won a national election in over 100 years. Farage was returned as MEP for the South East region, a seat he has represented since 1999. As an MEP, Farage leads the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy grouping in the European Parliament. On 8 May 2015, Farage resigned as leader of UKIP after he failed to win the seat of Thanet South in the general election held the previous day, although he kept open the possibility of"
"""irrelevant"", accused him of ""throwing toys out of pram"" and referred to him as ""the MEP for the South East of England"". In leaked emails, he was accused by UKIP's biggest donor, Arron Banks, of being a ""corrupt old Tory"". Nathan Gill subsequently left the UKIP group in the assembly to sit as an independent, resulting in Neil Hamilton becoming UKIP's Leader in Wales in September 2016. Hamilton was ousted as leader of UKIP in the National Assembly on the 17 May 2018 and was replaced by Caroline Jones. In August 2018, UKIP leader Gerard Batten MEP announced that there"
"Jeffrey Titford Jeffrey William Titford (born 24 October 1933, West Mersea, Essex) is a British politician who served as leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2000 until 2002. He served again as interim leader in September to November 2010, following the resignation of Lord Pearson of Rannoch. He was also a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England from 1999 to 2009. Before joining UKIP he had been at various times a member of the Conservative Party (for whom he was a local councillor), the New Britain Party and the Referendum Party. He was"
"requirements. Batten was elected unopposed, and announced he would resign in 12 months' time. 2018 UK Independence Party leadership election The 2018 UK Independence Party leadership election was triggered after members voted to remove Henry Bolton as leader of the UK Independence Party at an extraordinary general meeting held in Birmingham on 17 February 2018. It was the fourth UKIP leadership election in eighteen months. Interim leader Gerard Batten was ultimately elected unopposed as the party's new leader. After the UK's referendum on EU membership in June 2016 resulted in a vote to leave the European Union, then-leader of UKIP"
"the latter's 1997 dissolution. In 1997, Sked was ousted by a faction led by Nigel Farage, who became the party's preeminent figure. In 2006, Farage officially became leader and under his direction the party adopted a wider policy platform and capitalised on concerns about rising immigration, in particular among the White British working class. This resulted in significant breakthroughs at the 2013 local elections, 2014 European elections, and 2015 general election. The pressure UKIP exerted on the government is widely regarded as the main reason for the 2016 referendum which led to the decision for the United Kingdom to withdraw"
"party's assistant deputy leader on 22 January 2018 after Bolton refused to resign as leader following a vote of no confidence in him from UKIP's National Executive Committee the previous day. Since February 2018, Hookem has been UKIP's Deputy Leader during Gerard Batten's leadership of the party. He sits alongside Batten and five other UKIP MEPs as non-attached (Non-Inscrit) members of the European Parliament following the party's split from the EFDD Group lead by UKIP's former leader, Nigel Farage. UK Parliament European Parliament elections Mike Hookem Michael Hookem (born 9 October 1953) is a Member of the European Parliament for"
"his intention to stand down, Jones wrote a letter along with other members of the assembly urging Paul Nuttall to stand in the first UK Independence Party leadership election, 2016. Jones is a member of the Assembly's Health, Social Care and Sport committee. Jones replaced Hamilton as leader of UKIP in the National Assembly on the 17 May 2018 following a vote by the UKIP group. On 10 August 2018, Jones lost the group leadership finishing last in the UKIP Wales leadership election, 2018 in a three-way contest. Gareth Bennett won the contest and replaced her as group leader. On"
"Gerard Batten Gerard Joseph Batten (born 27 March 1954) is a British politician who has been the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) since February 2018. He is a Member of the European Parliament representing the European parliamentary constituency of London. Batten was born in Harold Hill, Essex, on 27 March 1954. He grew up on the Isle of Dogs in the East End of London. Before entering politics he was employed as a salesman for British Telecom. Batten was a member of the Anti-Federalist League, an early Eurosceptic cross-party political alliance from 1992–93. He was one of the"
"UKIP Frontbench Team The UK Independence Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. The front bench team is divided into departmental sub-units, the principal ones being the economy, foreign policy and immigration. Sometimes the front bench team consists of more than just the principal positions. UKIP Leader Gerard Batten, Leader of the UK Independence Party announced his front bench team in March 2018. Henry Bolton, elected leader 29 September 2017, announced his front bench on 18 October 2017. Following revelations about Henry Bolton's affair with a woman accused of racism a number of his spokespeople resigned. Paul Nuttall"
"Spokesman in the media during the election campaign. In the election, UKIP fielded 13 candidates and drew 10,109 (1.5%) votes. In November 2016, McNarry's term of Office as UKIP Leader in Northern Ireland formally ended when the party elected its new national leader. McNarry remains a supporter of UKIP - but is no longer actively involved in party politics. He sits as a board member of the Ulster Scots Agency. He is also active as a political commentator in the local media. <ref> David McNarry David McNarry (born 25 May 1948) is a former leader of the UK Independence Party"
"to 48%. Farage was voted UKIP leader in the September 2006 leadership election, and led them in the 2009 European Parliament election in which his party won the second-highest number of votes and seats after the Conservative Party. He resigned as leader later that year in order to concentrate on the 2010 general election. In late 2010, he was voted leader for a second time after the resignation of Lord Pearson of Rannoch. Farage led UKIP in the 2014 European Parliament election, in which his party won the most votes and seats; this was the first time since the December"
"negative impact of immigration on local communities and public services. The June 2016 referendum produced a 51.89% majority in favour of leaving the EU: the accomplishment of UKIP's ""raison d'être"" raised questions about the party's future. The loss of its MEPs would result in the loss of its primary institutional representation and a key source of its funding. After the referendum, Farage resigned as UKIP leader. Diane James was elected as his successor, but resigned after 18 days and left the party in November 2016. Farage's former deputy, Paul Nuttall, was elected leader that month. In March 2017, the party's"
"the Eurosceptic and right-wing populist United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) as a parliamentary candidate in four British general elections, having first been asked by UKIP founder Alan Sked in November 1996. Tolstoy was subsequently UKIP's candidate for the Barnsley East by-election in 1996; where he received 2.1% of the vote, and for Wantage in the 1997 (0.8%), 2001 (1.9%) and 2005 general elections (1.5%). Tolstoy stood for UKIP in Witney at the 2010 general election and received 3.5% of the vote. Tolstoy is the head of the senior branch of the Tolstoy family, being descended from Ivan Andreyevich Tolstoy (1644–1713)."
"reducing the party's representation in the upper house back down to two. Lord Stevens also left the party, in December 2018, leaving former leader Lord Pearson as UKIP's sole peer. UKIP competes electorally in all four parts of the United Kingdom. In October 2012, UKIP gained its first representation in a devolved Assembly the Northern Ireland Assembly in David McNarry, MLA for Strangford, who had left the Ulster Unionist Party. The party however failed to continue its representation at the 2016 election, coming within a hundred votes of taking a seat in East Antrim. UKIP's support has been particularly weak"
"had also cited the party's trajectory to the right as reasons for leaving the party. Another former leader, Paul Nuttall, also left for the same reason. By December 2018, a majority of the party's MEPs had left. Others leaving included Peter Whittle, the party's top vote-winner on the London Assembly. On 9 December 2018, before an important vote on Brexit legislation, UKIP led a ""Brexit Betrayal"" rally in central London fronted by Robinson, alongside other prominent far-right groups. UKIP is situated on the right-wing of the left–right political spectrum. More specifically, academic political scientists and political commentators have described UKIP"
"2018 UK Independence Party leadership election The 2018 UK Independence Party leadership election was triggered after members voted to remove Henry Bolton as leader of the UK Independence Party at an extraordinary general meeting held in Birmingham on 17 February 2018. It was the fourth UKIP leadership election in eighteen months. Interim leader Gerard Batten was ultimately elected unopposed as the party's new leader. After the UK's referendum on EU membership in June 2016 resulted in a vote to leave the European Union, then-leader of UKIP Nigel Farage announced his resignation. In September 2016, Diane James was elected to succeed"
"Paul Nuttall to become the next leader of UKIP. Broughton is a former semi-professional wrestler and now works as a supervisor for Tesco. He also has a keen interest in football and tennis. In 2018, Broughton confirmed he had resigned from UKIP. Phillip Broughton Phillip Broughton is a British politician who stood for the UK Independence Party in Hartlepool at the 2015 and 2017 General Elections. In July 2016, he announced that he is running to be leader of UKIP in the UK Independence Party leadership election, 2016 following the resignation of Nigel Farage. Broughton said the party needed to"