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UKIP has never said it wants to stop all immigration – it wants to limit the numbers. People from overseas were employed because we could not find workers to do the jobs. We had a care home of our own, but mostly our workers were employed on home care contracts we had with Hull City Council and other organisations. The workers were paid more than the minimum wage, but not massively more. The amount we could afford to pay was determined by the amount of money we received from the council. Working in care is quite tough and we had a big turnover of staff.

The company collapsed into administration with debts of £116,000, after its main bankers HSBC withdrew its borrowing facility, owing to the financial crisis of 2007–2008. [5]

Gill then moved back to Wales, where he now lives in Llangefni, Isle of Anglesey, with his American wife Jana, [1] [7] and five children. [8] The family are practising members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [1]

Political career

In July 2012, he came last in the election of councillor for the Llanbedrgoch electoral division. [9]

In May 2013, he led the UKIP group of candidates in the Anglesey local elections, which included his wife, Jana Gill (standing for Canolbarth Môn), [10] and his sister, Jayne Gill (for Aethwy). [11] Gill himself stood to be elected as councillor for the new electoral division of Seiriol, but he came in eighth place with 7% of the vote. [12] The party did not win any seats on the island's council. [13]

In August 2013, he came third behind Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth in the National Assembly for Wales by-election for Ynys Môn. [14]

With John Bufton stepping down as MEP in 2014, Gill was selected as UKIP candidate number one for Wales in the European Parliament Election and held on to the seat for the party. [3]

During the UKIP Wales Conference on 6 December 2014, Nigel Farage, then-Leader of UK Independence Party, announced that Gill would be the Leader of the Party in Wales. [15] During the 2015 general election campaign, Gill represented UKIP in the ITV Welsh TV Leaders debate. During the election campaign, Gill denied human involvement in climate change, comments which were strongly criticised by other leaders. [16]

In the 2016 Assembly election Gill won a seat representing the North Wales region. [17] He was beaten to the post of leader of the UKIP group in the National Assembly for Wales by former Conservative MP Neil Hamilton. Farage described the move as an "unjust act of deep ingratitude" [18] resulting in Hamilton dismissing Farage as simply an "MEP for South East England whose opinions were irrelevant". [19] Gill subsequently left the UKIP group in the assembly to sit as an independent, citing much infighting and distractions. [20] He remained a member of the party and its leader in Wales, until Neil Hamilton was made Wales leader in September 2016. [21] Also in September 2016 Gill's media advisor Alexandra Phillips spoke to The Guardian , stating that she had left UKIP and joined the Conservatives, making comments critical of Hamilton. [22] Staying on as an advisor to Gill, she told BBC Wales that UKIP's foothold in Wales had become "a war zone". [23] Gill resigned as an AM in December 2017.

On 6 December 2018, Gill resigned from UKIP, in opposition to the party leader Gerard Batten's links to far-right activist Tommy Robinson. [4] He joined the new Brexit Party in February 2019. [24] [25]

He was re-elected as an MEP in Wales in the 2019 European Parliament election. He was elected alongside fellow Brexit Party candidate, James Wells. [26]

Gill ran in Caerphilly in the 2019 general election, and came 4th with 11.2% of the vote. [27]

On 26 March 2021, Gill was announced as Leader of Reform UK Wales. [28] Gill was a regional list candidate in the 2021 Senedd election for the North Wales electoral region [29] but failed to be elected. [30] He quit Reform UK shortly afterwards. [31]

In March 2023, Nation.Cymru revealed that Gill had met multiple meetings with pro-Russian leaders in Ukraine and Moldova that were organised by men accused of being Kremlin agents. [32]

Personal life

Gill and his wife, Jana have five children. [1] He is a practicing Mormon, and served as a Bishop for the LDS Church in Anglesey for six years. [33]

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  4. 1 2 Gill, Nathan (6 December 2018). "I have not left UKIP, UKIP has left me. It is with regret and sadness that today I am resigning from UKIP". @NathanGillMEP. Retrieved 6 December 2018– via Twitter.
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  6. ↑ Companies House records. Company Registered No.05076906; Registered Office: 5 Church Street, Llangefni, Angelesey, LL77 7DU; Date of incorporation: 17 March 2004; Status: In Liquidation
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  28. ↑ Reform UK Wales [@reformukwales] (26 March 2021). "After almost a quarter of a century of one party rule it's time to reform Wales
    Nathan was a leading figure in the fight to ensure UK laws are created by politicians accountable to us Now it's time to reform those laws
    @NathanGillMEP
    #Senedd21 #Wales2021 #ReformUK"     (Tweet). Retrieved 27 March 2021– via Twitter.
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  31. ↑ "Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill stopped being a member of the party straight after the Senedd election". Nation.Cymru. 16 March 2022.
  32. ↑ "Welsh politician linked to men accused of being Kremlin agents". Nation.Cymru. 20 March 2023. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  33. ↑ "Mormon faith is important to me, says UKIP's Nathan Gill". BBC News. 22 March 2016. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
Nathan Gill
Nathan Gill AM.png
Gill in 2016
Leader of Reform UK Wales
In office
26 March 2021 –8 May 2021
Senedd
Preceded by Assembly Member for North Wales
2016–2017		Succeeded by
Mandy Jones
European Parliament
Preceded by Member of the European Parliament for Wales
2014–present		position abolished
Party political offices
New post Leader of UK Independence Party in Wales
2014– 2016		Succeeded by
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