Nigel Paul Farage is a British politician and broadcaster who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Clacton and Leader of Reform UK since 2024,having previously been its leader from 2019 to 2021. He 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.
Sir Oliver Heald is a British barrister and Conservative Party politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Hertfordshire,formerly North Hertfordshire,from 1992 to 2024.
The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is the fisheries policy of the European Union (EU). It sets quotas for which member states are allowed to catch each type of fish,as well as encouraging the fishing industry by various market interventions. In 2004 it had a budget of €931 million,approximately 0.75% of the EU budget.
Waveney was a constituency of in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament that existed from 1983 to 2024. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Lowestoft is a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Lowestoft in Suffolk. It returns one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom,elected by the first past the post voting system.
Annunziata Mary Rees-Mogg is a British freelance journalist whose focus is finance,economics,and European politics. She was a Brexit Party,then Conservative politician,during 2019 and into early 2020. Rees-Mogg has been a leader writer for The Daily Telegraph,deputy editor of MoneyWeek,and editor of the European Journal,a Eurosceptic magazine owned by Bill Cash's think tank,the European Foundation.
Sheryll Murray is a British Conservative Party politician. She was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South East Cornwall from 2010 to 2024.
Aileen McLeod is a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. She is a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Scotland constituency,having been elected in the 2019 European Parliament election. She served as MEP until the 31 January 2020 when the Brexit process was completed.
Brexit was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU). Following a referendum held in the UK on 23 June 2016,Brexit officially took place at 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2020. The UK,which joined the EU's precursors the European Communities (EC) on 1 January 1973,is the only member state to have withdrawn from the EU. Following Brexit,EU law and the Court of Justice of the European Union no longer have primacy over British laws. The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 retains relevant EU law as domestic law,which the UK can amend or repeal.
Nathan Lee Gill is a British former politician who was the Leader of Reform UK Wales from March to May 2021,when he resigned from the party. He previously served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Wales from 2014 to January 2020.
Dame Amanda Anne Milling is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Cannock Chase from the 2015 general election until losing her seat in 2024. She served as Minister without Portfolio in the UK cabinet and,alongside Ben Elliot,as Co-Chairman of the Conservative Party from February 2020 to September 2021. She also served as Minister of State for Asia and the Middle East from September 2021 to September 2022. She previously worked in market research.
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;it 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 since 1999 to be held on a day that did not coincide with any local elections. This was the first of two national elections held in the United Kingdom in 2019;the 2019 general election occurred six-and-a-half months later in December 2019.
Richard James Sunley Tice is a British businessman and politician who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Boston and Skegness and Deputy Leader of Reform UK since 2024,having previously been the chairman of the party from 2019 to 2021 and again briefly in 2024. Since 2023,he has also been Reform UK's energy and foreign-policy spokesman. He became the leader of Reform UK in March 2021,but stood down in June 2024 and was succeeded by Nigel Farage.
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 of the leadership 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 per cent of the vote.
Alexandra Lesley Phillips is a British journalist,broadcaster,and former politician.
Robert Andrew Rowland was a British politician who served as a Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 2019 until the United Kingdom's exit from the EU in 2020. He was a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and was a substitute on the Committee for Industry,Research and Energy.
Belinda Claire De Camborne Lucy is a British politician who has been Reform UK's Education and Families spokesperson since 2023. She was previously a Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 2019 to 2020. In the European Parliament,she was a member of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality,and part of the delegation to the EU–Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
The Yorkshire coast fishery has long been part of the Yorkshire economy for centuries. The 114-mile (183 km) Yorkshire Coast,from the River Tees to the Humber estuary,has many ports both small and large where the fishing trade thrives. The historic ports at Hull and Whitby are important locations for the landing and processing of fish and shellfish. Scarborough and Bridlington are also sites of commercial fishing.
Fish for finance is a possible trade-off that has been considered by both sides in the trade negotiations between the United Kingdom and the European Union (EU) over their future relationship following Brexit in January 2020. The Brexit withdrawal agreement between the two parties called for an agreement on fisheries to be concluded by June 2020,followed by an agreement on financial services at the end of July,deadlines which were both missed. Both were expected to be part of the final EU–UK trade agreement reached by the end of 2020,the end of the Brexit transition period. The final agreement had some broad outlines for a future fishing deal,primarily gradual EU concessions of fishing quota in UK waters,but was largely silent on finance.
The 2019 European Parliament election for the election of the delegation from the United Kingdom was held on 23 May 2019. These were the last elections to the European Parliament to be held before Brexit.
