Christopher Heaton-Harris is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland since 6 September 2022. A member of the Conservative Party,he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Daventry since 2010.
Roger Helmer is a British politician and businessman. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East Midlands region from 1999 to 2017. Before becoming an MEP,he was a business executive.
Annunziata Mary Rees-Mogg is a freelance journalist whose focus is finance,economics,and European politics and was a British Brexit Party then Conservative politician during 2019 and into early 2020.
Jonathan Bullock is an English politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East Midlands constituency until the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU on 31 January 2020. He was third on the UKIP list for that constituency in the 2014 European election,and became an MEP on 1 August 2017,succeeding Roger Helmer. He was re-elected in 2019 for the Brexit Party.
Julie McCulloch Girling is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South West England between 2009 and 2019,and leader of the Renew Party from 2019 to 2020.
The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) is a soft Eurosceptic,anti-federalist political group of the European Parliament. The ECR is the parliamentary group of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party European political party (formerly known as the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe or Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists,but also includes MEPs from four other European parties and thirteen MEPs without European party affiliation.
Edward McMillan-Scott is a British politician. He was a pro-EU Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber constituency from 1984 until 2014. He was the last and one of the longest-serving UK Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament 2004–2014. He held its Human Rights and Democracy portfolio. In 1992 he founded the EU's Instrument for Human Rights and Democracy (EIDHR) - now the EU's Global Europe Human Rights &Democracy Programme,which remain's the world's largest dedicated programme.
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).
The Alliance EPP:European People's Party UK,also known as UK EPP and the 4 Freedoms Party,is a pro-European Union,centre-right political party in the United Kingdom. It first contested an election at the 2014 European Parliament elections.
Amjad Mahmood Bashir is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Yorkshire and the Humber region between 2014 and 2019. He was elected in 2014 for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and defected to the Conservative Party on 24 January 2015.
Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy was a Eurosceptic and populist political group in the European Parliament. The EFDD group was a continuation for the Eighth European Parliament of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) group that existed during the Seventh European Parliament,with significant changes to group membership.
The 2019 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2019 European Parliament election,held on Thursday 23 May 2019 and the results were 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.
The Conservative Party in Gibraltar is the part of the Conservative Party that operates in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is a branch of the South West Region of the Conservative Party. The party does not field candidates in the local elections in the territory,and so far has only ever stood candidates for the European Parliament constituency of South West England and Gibraltar.
Reform UK is a right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. It was founded with support from Nigel Farage in 2018 as the Brexit Party,advocating hard Euroscepticism and a no-deal Brexit. It gained 29 seats and the largest share of the national vote in the 2019 European Parliament election,but failed to win any seats in the December 2019 General Election. After Brexit,it was renamed Reform UK in 2021 and became an anti-lockdown party during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2022,it began campaigning on broader right-wing populist themes during the cost-of-living crisis.
Lance Philip Anisfeld,known professionally as Lance Philip Forman,is a British politician and businessman,who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London between 2 July 2019 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU.
The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on 12 December 2019 to elect all 650 members of the House of Commons,including the 40 Welsh seats.
Richard James Simmonds,CBE is a retired English Conservative Party politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Midlands West from 1979 to 1984 and then for Wight and Hampshire East from 1984 to 1994.
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.
