Nigel Paul Farage is a British broadcaster and former politician who was Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Brexit Party from 2019 to 2021. Farage is currently the Honorary President of Reform UK and a presenter for GB News. He served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 until the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union in 2020.
Catharine Letitia Hoey,Baroness Hoey,better known as Kate Hoey,is a Northern Irish politician and life peer who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Home Affairs from 1998 to 1999 and Minister for Sport from 1999 to 2001. During the 1970s Hoey was involved in radical far-left groups but by the end of the decade became involved with the Labour Party. Hoey remained a member of the Labour Party for several decades while she was Member of Parliament (MP) for Vauxhall from 1989 to 2019,but resigned from the party in 2020.
The Revolutionary Communist Party,known as the Revolutionary Communist Tendency until 1981,claimed to be a Trotskyist political organisation formed in 1978. From 1988 it published the journal Living Marxism. It started with only a few dozen supporters;its membership peaked at 200 in the mid-1990s.
The Warrington bombings were two bomb attacks that took place during early 1993 in Warrington,Cheshire,England. The first attack happened on 26 February,when a bomb exploded at a gas storage facility. This first explosion caused extensive damage,but no injuries. While fleeing the scene,the bombers shot and injured a police officer and two of the bombers were caught following a high-speed car chase. The second attack happened on 20 March,when two smaller bombs exploded in litter bins outside shops and businesses on Bridge Street. Two children were killed and 56 people were injured.
Gerard Joseph Batten is a British politician who served as the Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2018 to 2019. He was a founding member of the party in 1993,and served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London from 2004 to 2019.
Spiked is a British Internet magazine focusing on politics,culture and society. The magazine was founded in 2001 with the same editor and many of the same contributors as Living Marxism,which had closed in 2000 after losing a case for libel brought by ITN.
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.
Jacqueline Foster,Baroness Foster of Oxton,is a British Conservative politician and a former Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region.
William Legge,10th Earl of Dartmouth,styled Viscount Lewisham from 1962 to 1997,is a British politician and hereditary peer,usually known as William Dartmouth.
Nicola Claire Blackwood,Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford is a British politician of the Conservative Party. Baroness Blackwood was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford West and Abingdon from 2010 to 2017. She has also been known by her married name Nicola Blackwood-Bate since 2016.
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.
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.
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.
Reform UK is a right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Catherine Blaiklock with support from Nigel Farage in November 2018 as the Brexit Party,advocating hard Euroscepticism and a no-deal Brexit. It won the United Kingdom’s component of the 2019 European Parliament election,but failed to win any seats at the 2019 general election. After the UK's withdrawal from the European Union (EU) on 31 January 2020,it was renamed to Reform UK,and it became primarily an anti-lockdown party during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2022,the party has campaigned on a broader platform,chiefly surrounding opposing immigration and opposing the government's Net Zero energy policy.
Alexandra Lesley Phillips is a British journalist and former politician. She served as a Brexit Party member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the South East England constituency from 2019 to 2020. She was the second candidate on the party's list for the constituency after party leader Nigel Farage. Phillips was previously head of media at the UK Independence Party (UKIP),which she left in September 2016. She was a GB News presenter between June 2021 and September 2022. In February 2023,Phillips joined Reform UK.
Lucy Elizabeth Harris is a British Conservative Party politician and advisor. She was elected as a Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Yorkshire and the Humber constituency in the 2019 European parliamentary election. She held this role until the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU. Prior to her political career,she worked in publishing as a corporate communications executive for The Quarto Group,and later the Greater London Authority.
Matthew Richard Patten is a former British politician,who represented the Brexit Party. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East Midlands between 2019 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU on 31 January 2020. He had previously been a Conservative councillor for Bradfield,Wix and Wrabness in Tendring District,Essex.
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.
