Sir Kevin John Barron is a British Labour Party politician and former coal industry worker. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rother Valley from 1983 until 2019.
Nigel Paul Farage is a British politician and broadcaster who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Clacton and the Leader of Reform UK since 2024,having previously been its leader from 2019 to 2021 when it was called the Brexit Party. He also was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009,and 2010 to 2016. Farage served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 until the UK's withdrawal from the European Union (EU) in 2020. He owns the majority of shares in the company that controls the party,Reform UK Limited.
Richard Graham Corbett CBE is a former British politician who served as the final Leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party (EPLP),from 2017 to 2020.
Godfrey William Bloom TD is a former British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2004 to 2014. He was elected for the UK Independence Party in the European elections of 2004 and 2009,representing UKIP until September 2013,when UKIP withdrew the party whip from him. He then sat as an Independent until the end of his term of office in May 2014. Bloom resigned his UKIP party membership on 13 October 2014.
John Douglas Wilson Carswell is a British-American former politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 2005 to 2017,co-founded Vote Leave and currently serves as president and CEO of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy.
Paul Andrew Nuttall is a British politician who served as Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2016 to 2017. He was elected to the European Parliament in 2009 as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate,and served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England between 2009 and 2019,sitting in the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group. He left UKIP in December 2018,criticising the party's association with far-right activist Tommy Robinson,and joined the Brexit Party in 2019.
Jonathan William Arnott is a British politician and former schoolteacher. After the 2014 European Parliament election,he served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North East England region. Originally sitting as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) representative,he resigned from the party on 19 January 2018 to sit as an independent until designating as Brexit Party on 17 April 2019.
Mark John Reckless is a British lawyer and former politician who served as a Member of the Senedd (MS) for South Wales East from 2016 until 2021,having previously served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochester and Strood from 2010 to 2015. Initially a member of the Conservative Party,he crossed the floor to join the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in September 2014. He has since changed parties a further three times.
The 2014 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2014 European Parliament election,held on Thursday 22 May 2014,coinciding with the 2014 local elections in England and Northern Ireland. In total,73 Members of the European Parliament were elected from the United Kingdom using proportional representation. England,Scotland and Wales use a closed-list party list system of PR,while Northern Ireland used the single transferable vote (STV).
Margaret Lucille Jeanne Parker is a British former politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East Midlands region between 2014 and 2019.
On 29 November 2012,a by-election was held for the UK House of Commons constituency of Rotherham. The by-election was caused by the resignation of its Member of Parliament Denis MacShane after the House of Commons Standards and Privileges Committee found that he had submitted 19 false invoices "plainly intended to deceive" the parliamentary expenses authority,an issue dating back to 2009 and a wider parliamentary expenses scandal in the UK. MacShane accepted the office of Chiltern Hundreds on 5 November 2012,formally vacating his seat. The election took place on 29 November 2012,at the same time as by-elections in Croydon North and Middlesbrough which were caused by the deaths of the sitting MPs.
Sarah Deborah Champion is a British Labour Party politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rotherham since 2012.
Janice Ann Atkinson is a former British politician who was a Member of the European Parliament for the South East England region. She formerly represented the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and later sat as an independent:she was elected in 2014,second on the list for the region behind Nigel Farage. In March 2015,she was expelled from UKIP for "bringing the party into disrepute" after her chief of staff was recorded trying to fraudulently inflate her expenses.
Louise Bours,also known as Louise van de Bours,is a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North West England region. She was elected in 2014 as a UK Independence Party candidate but resigned from the party 2018,and sat as an independent until she stood down at the 2019 election.
The 2019 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2019 European Parliament election. It was held on Thursday 23 May 2019 and the results announced on Sunday 26 and Monday 27 May 2019,after all the other EU countries had voted. This was the United Kingdom's final participation in a European Parliament election before leaving the European Union on 31 January 2020,and was also the last election to be held under the provisions of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002 before its repeal under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and was the first European election in the United Kingdom to be held on a day that did not coincide with any local elections since 1999. This was the first of two national elections that would be held in the United Kingdom in 2019 with the 2019 general election being held six months later in December 2019.
Anne Marie Dorothy Waters is a far-right politician and activist in the United Kingdom. She founded and led the anti-Islam party For Britain until its dissolution in 2022. She is also the director of Sharia Watch UK,an organisation launched in April 2014. In January 2016,Waters launched Pegida UK in conjunction with activist Tommy Robinson and far-right politician Paul Weston.
A by-election for the House of Commons constituency of Sleaford and North Hykeham in Lincolnshire,England,was held on 8 December 2016. It was triggered by the resignation of the Conservative member of parliament (MP) Stephen Phillips,who left Parliament on 4 November 2016 due to policy differences with the Conservative government led by the prime minister,Theresa May,over Brexit –the British withdrawal from the European Union (EU). The Conservatives nominated Caroline Johnson,a paediatrician,to replace Phillips;she won the by-election with more than 50 per cent of the vote,a sizable majority. The Conservatives' vote share fell slightly compared to the result at the previous general election in 2015.
There was a by-election in the constituency of Stoke-on-Trent Central on 23 February 2017 following the resignation of Labour's Tristram Hunt,who became director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. It took place alongside a by-election in Copeland.
Reform UK is a right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. Nigel Farage has served as the party's leader since June 2024 and Richard Tice has served as the party's deputy leader since July 2024. The Party currently has five Members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons and one member of the London Assembly. Following Farage's resumption as leader during the 2024 general election,there was a sharp increase in support for the party. In the election it was the third largest party by popular vote,with 14.3% of the vote share. The party is structured as a limited company,with Farage as the majority shareholder with fifteen shares. Farage owns eight of these,giving him a controlling majority. The other shareholders are Tice,who holds five,and Chief Executive Paul Oakden and Party Treasurer Mehrtash A'Zami who each hold one share.
