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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Robert Kilroy-Silk</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Leader of <a href="/wiki/Veritas_(political_party)" title="Veritas (political party)">Veritas</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />30 January 2005 – 29 July 2005</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Deputy</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Damian_Hockney" title="Damian Hockney">Damian Hockney</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Office created</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Patrick Eston</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_European_Parliament" title="Member of the European Parliament">Member of the European Parliament</a> <br /> for the <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_(European_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Midlands (European Parliament constituency)">East Midlands</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br /><a href="/wiki/2004_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="2004 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">10 June 2004</a> – <a href="/wiki/2009_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">4 June 2009</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nick_Clegg" title="Nick Clegg">Nick Clegg</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Position abolished</i></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> <br /> for <a href="/wiki/Knowsley_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Knowsley North (UK Parliament constituency)">Knowsley North</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />9 June 1983 – 1 October 1986</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Position established</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_Howarth" title="George Howarth">George Howarth</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> <br /> for <a href="/wiki/Ormskirk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ormskirk (UK Parliament constituency)">Ormskirk</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />28 February 1974 – 13 May 1983</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Harold_Soref" title="Harold Soref">Harold Soref</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Position abolished</i></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1942-05-19</span>) </span>19 May 1942<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 82)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>, Warwickshire, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political<br />affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> (1974–1986)<br /><a href="/wiki/UK_Independence_Party" title="UK Independence Party">UKIP</a> (2004–05)<br /><a href="/wiki/Veritas_(political_party)" title="Veritas (political party)">Veritas</a> (2005)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Jan Beech</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1963)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/London_School_of_Economics" title="London School of Economics">London School of Economics</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Television presenter</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk</b> (born <b>Robert Michael Silk</b>; 19 May 1942) is an English former politician and broadcaster. After a decade as a university lecturer, he served as a <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> (MP) from 1974 to 1986. He left the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> in 1986 in order to present a new <a href="/wiki/BBC_Television" title="BBC Television">BBC Television</a> daytime talk show, <i><a href="/wiki/Kilroy_(TV_series)" title="Kilroy (TV series)">Kilroy</a></i>, which ran until 2004. He returned to politics, serving as a <a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_European_Parliament" title="Member of the European Parliament">Member of the European Parliament</a> (MEP) from 2004 to 2009. He had a profound role in the mainstreaming of <a href="/wiki/Euroscepticism_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom">Eurosceptic politics in the UK</a><sup id="cite_ref-Farage_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farage-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and has been dubbed 'The Godfather of <a href="/wiki/Brexit" title="Brexit">Brexit</a>'.<sup id="cite_ref-NewStatesman_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NewStatesman-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kilroy-Silk was born in <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>, son of William Silk, a <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> leading stoker, and his wife Minnie Rose (<i>née</i> Rooke). William Silk was lost at sea when aged 22, serving on <a href="/wiki/HMS_Charybdis_(88)" title="HMS Charybdis (88)">HMS <i>Charybdis</i></a>, which was torpedoed and sunk off the coast of <a href="/wiki/Brittany" title="Brittany">Brittany</a> by German <a href="/wiki/Torpedo_boat" title="Torpedo boat">torpedo boats</a> on 23 October 1943.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His son was 17 months old. </p><p>Robert's mother Rose remarried in 1946, to family friend John Francis Kilroy, a car worker at the <a href="/wiki/Rootes_Group" title="Rootes Group">Rootes</a> plant in <a href="/wiki/Warwickshire" title="Warwickshire">Warwickshire</a>. He adopted the young boy, who from then used the surname Kilroy-Silk. </p><p>Kilroy-Silk failed his <a href="/wiki/Eleven-plus" title="Eleven-plus">eleven-plus</a> examination, for entry to selective schools, in 1953. He spent his first year at a <a href="/wiki/Secondary_modern_school" title="Secondary modern school">secondary modern school</a> and later passed the review exam and went to Saltley Grammar School, <a href="/wiki/Saltley" title="Saltley">Saltley</a>, Birmingham. He attended the <a href="/wiki/London_School_of_Economics" title="London School of Economics">London School of Economics</a> to study politics and economics.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marriage_and_early_career">Marriage and early career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Marriage and early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1963, Kilroy-Silk married Jan Beech,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> daughter of a <a href="/wiki/Shop_steward" class="mw-redirect" title="Shop steward">shop steward</a>. They have a son and a daughter.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After graduation he became a lecturer in politics at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Liverpool" title="University of Liverpool">University of Liverpool</a>, serving from 1966 to 1974.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He published a theoretical work, <i>Socialism since Marx</i>, in 1972.<sup id="cite_ref-NewStatesman_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NewStatesman-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kilroy-Silk moved to <a href="/wiki/Warleigh,_Bickleigh" title="Warleigh, Bickleigh">Warleigh House</a> in Plymouth in 2015 with his wife. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Labour_MP">Labour MP</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Labour MP"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the <a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">February 1974 general election</a>, Kilroy-Silk was elected as a Labour MP for the <a href="/wiki/Ormskirk_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ormskirk (UK Parliament constituency)">Ormskirk</a> constituency in <a href="/wiki/Lancashire" title="Lancashire">Lancashire</a>. He remained its MP until its abolition at the <a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">1983 general election</a>, when he was elected to represent the new <a href="/wiki/Knowsley_North_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Knowsley North (UK Parliament constituency)">Knowsley North</a> seat; he held this until his <a href="/wiki/Resignation_from_the_British_House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="Resignation from the British House of Commons">resignation from the House of Commons</a> in 1986. In an article for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> in 1975, Kilroy-Silk argued that politics was not "compromises and bargains" or hankering after "a spurious consensus". He wrote that the function of government, particularly a Labour government, was </p> <blockquote><p>"to impose its values on society. Its role is creative: to cast, so far as it is able, society in its image". Furthermore, socialists should not be worried about being accused of dictatorial powers; they must go forward with "a tint of arrogance".<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p>The next year he was quoted as saying, "the Labour Party must always be a class party, for it is a class war we are fighting".<sup id="cite_ref-counterpoint20101108_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-counterpoint20101108-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kilroy-Silk was appointed Shadow <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Home_Affairs" class="mw-redirect" title="Ministry of Home Affairs">Home Affairs</a> spokesman, resigning in 1985. In resigning his seat, he said that he had been assaulted by members of the <a href="/wiki/Militant_(Trotskyist_group)" class="mw-redirect" title="Militant (Trotskyist group)">Militant</a> group and was reported to have had a scuffle with left-wing Labour MP <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn" title="Jeremy Corbyn">Jeremy Corbyn</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He wrote a book about his experiences, entitled <i>Hard Labour</i>, and subsequently left the Labour Party. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eurosceptic_politics">Eurosceptic politics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Eurosceptic politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Joining_UKIP">Joining UKIP</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Joining UKIP"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2004, Kilroy-Silk was recruited to the <a href="/wiki/UK_Independence_Party" title="UK Independence Party">UK Independence Party</a> (UKIP). During that year's <a href="/wiki/2004_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="2004 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">European Parliament election</a> campaign he presented one of the <a href="/wiki/Party_political_broadcast" title="Party political broadcast">party political broadcasts</a>. His recruitment and celebrity significantly raised the profile of the party,<sup id="cite_ref-Farage_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farage-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NewStatesman_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NewStatesman-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> further helped by his enlisting of actress <a href="/wiki/Joan_Collins" title="Joan Collins">Joan Collins</a> who attended a UKIP press conference at Kilroy-Silk's invitation. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Election_to_the_European_Parliament">Election to the European Parliament</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Election to the European Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kilroy-Silk stood on the UKIP list for the <a href="/wiki/East_Midlands_(European_Parliament_constituency)" title="East Midlands (European Parliament constituency)">East Midlands constituency</a> and was elected as a <a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_European_Parliament" title="Member of the European Parliament">Member of the European Parliament</a> (MEP) in the second seat for his region.The election used a <a href="/wiki/Closed_list" title="Closed list">closed list</a> form of <a href="/wiki/Proportional_representation" title="Proportional representation">proportional representation</a>; UKIP scored 26.05 per cent of the vote in that region, just behind the Conservatives with 26.39 per cent. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="UKIP_leadership">UKIP leadership</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: UKIP leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/2004_Hartlepool_by-election" title="2004 Hartlepool by-election">2004 Hartlepool by-election</a>, UKIP came third, ahead of the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a>. The next day, in an interview on <i><a href="/wiki/Breakfast_with_Frost" title="Breakfast with Frost">Breakfast with Frost</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>), Kilroy-Silk expressed ambition to lead UKIP and criticised the party's leader <a href="/wiki/Roger_Knapman" title="Roger Knapman">Roger Knapman</a>. </p><p>Following this, businessman and friend <a href="/wiki/Paul_Sykes_(businessman)" title="Paul Sykes (businessman)">Paul Sykes</a> announced his intention to cease his partial funding of UKIP and to return his support to the Conservatives, as he feared that the <a href="/wiki/Euroscepticism" title="Euroscepticism">Euro-sceptic</a> vote might be split. The branch chairmen of UKIP were canvassed on their opinion regarding Kilroy-Silk's challenge for the party leadership. Only a minority (13%) were sympathetic to him; Kilroy-Silk did not think this was significant, as he believed that too few party members had been consulted. Party officials threatened him with disciplinary action if he continued his challenge.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>On 27 October 2004, Kilroy-Silk officially announced that he had withdrawn from the UKIP whip in the European Parliament, branding the party "incompetent". But, he said that he would remain as an independent member of UKIP, and would continue to challenge for the leadership. </p><p>UKIP's constitution states that 70 days' notice is required before a leadership ballot can take place. With the <a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">next general election in the UK</a> expected in spring 2005, Kilroy-Silk pushed for an emergency general meeting of the party as early as possible. On 3 November 2004, Kilroy-Silk said he intended to be leader by Christmas, though this would have been impossible under the rules.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In Manchester on 3 December 2004 at about 7.15 p.m., Kilroy-Silk was attacked outside the Girls' High School, when a bucket of manure was thrown over him as he arrived for a recording of the BBC Radio 4's <i><a href="/wiki/Any_Questions" class="mw-redirect" title="Any Questions">Any Questions</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 20 January 2005, Kilroy-Silk announced that he had left UKIP; he had been a member for nine months. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Veritas">Veritas</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Veritas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 30 January 2005 Kilroy-Silk launched a new political party <a href="/wiki/Veritas_(political_party)" title="Veritas (political party)">Veritas</a>, promising to take the fight to the “supercilious metropolitan elite”.<sup id="cite_ref-NewStatesman_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NewStatesman-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Damian_Hockney" title="Damian Hockney">Damian Hockney</a>, UKIP's leader in the <a href="/wiki/London_Assembly" title="London Assembly">London Assembly</a>, had defected to Veritas, becoming its first Deputy Leader. </p><p>UKIP members and some journalists dubbed Kilroy-Silk's new party "Vanitas", meaning a party acting as a vehicle for its founder's vanity.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The party was formally launched on 2 February 2005 at Hinckley Golf Club in <a href="/wiki/Hinckley" title="Hinckley">Hinckley</a>, Leicestershire. In the <a href="/wiki/2005_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2005 United Kingdom general election">2005 general election</a>, Kilroy-Silk contested the seat of <a href="/wiki/Erewash_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Erewash (UK Parliament constituency)">Erewash</a>, but came in fourth with 5.8%, just above the 5% level needed to save his deposit. He tried to press charges against a man who, he said, "smashed a bottle of water against the side of his head" while the politician was being interviewed by a European television crew outside a supermarket. The alleged assailant said he had squirted Kilroy-Silk with water from a plastic bottle before running away; this account was confirmed by the TV crew, which also filmed the incident. The police decided not to prosecute. </p><p>On 12 July 2005, party member Ken Wharton announced his intention to challenge Kilroy-Silk for the leadership, claiming party members were "not being looked after". Discontented party members set up the Veritas Members' Association to "put the truth back into Veritas".<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 29 July 2005, Veritas announced the resignation of Kilroy-Silk as party leader.<sup id="cite_ref-resign_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-resign-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his resignation statement, he said: </p> <blockquote><p>"It was clear from the general election result – and more recently that of the <a href="/wiki/2005_Cheadle_by-election" title="2005 Cheadle by-election">Cheadle by-election</a> – that the electors are content with the old parties and that it would be virtually impossible for a new party to make a significant impact given the nature of our electoral system. We tried and failed."<sup id="cite_ref-resign_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-resign-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In August 2005, four of the MEPs for the East Midlands region (<a href="/wiki/Derek_Clark" title="Derek Clark">Clark</a>, <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Heaton-Harris" class="mw-redirect" title="Christopher Heaton-Harris">Heaton-Harris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roger_Helmer" title="Roger Helmer">Helmer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Phillip_Whitehead" title="Phillip Whitehead">Whitehead</a>) sent a joint letter to President of the European Parliament <a href="/wiki/Josep_Borrell" title="Josep Borrell">Josep Borrell</a> complaining about Kilroy-Silk: </p> <blockquote><p>"He seems to have done little or no work as a constituency MEP for the East Midlands. This leaves five MEPs to do the work of six and the electorate have been short-changed". They went on to complain that Kilroy-Silk was not "fulfilling the pledge he made on becoming an MEP, to serve the electorate of his region" and to call for him to "either do the job for which he is paid, or get out and leave it to those who can."<sup id="cite_ref-kilroy_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kilroy-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p>The European Parliament does not have any power to expel a member, and Borrell took no action.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Political_affiliation_while_an_MEP">Political affiliation while an MEP</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Political affiliation while an MEP"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kilroy-Silk, who was elected to the European Parliament on the UKIP list, remained a member of the Veritas Party, but sat as an Independent MEP. Some Veritas members were reported to have questioned why he was allowed to continue as a party member.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Kilroy-Silk's name was absent from the list of candidates published on 7 May 2009 for the <a href="/wiki/2009_European_Parliament_election_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom">2009 European Parliament election</a>. His membership was terminated when the European Parliament reconvened on 17 July 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Journalism">Journalism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Journalism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ireland">Ireland</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Ireland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1992, Kilroy made a comment regarding Ireland in his <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Express" title="Daily Express">Daily Express</a></i> column, under the guise of attacking <a href="/wiki/Ray_MacSharry" title="Ray MacSharry">Ray MacSharry</a>, a former Irish government minister and EU commissioner, whom he described as "a redundant second-rate politician from a country peopled by priests, peasants and pixies".<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was condemned by the then <a href="/wiki/List_of_ambassadors_of_Ireland_to_the_United_Kingdom" title="List of ambassadors of Ireland to the United Kingdom">Irish ambassador to the UK</a>, Joseph Small, for its "gratuitously offensive and indeed racist remarks".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The newspaper's editor, <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Lloyd" title="Nicholas Lloyd">Sir Nicholas Lloyd</a>, apologised to MacSharry and the Irish people in general, while Kilroy added: "I accept that my references to Mr MacSharry and the Irish people were both offensive and unjustified, and I fully associate myself with this apology."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arabs">Arabs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Arabs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The BBC cancelled the <i>Kilroy</i> show in January 2004 after an opinion article, entitled "We owe Arabs nothing", by Kilroy-Silk was published in the <i><a href="/wiki/Sunday_Express" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunday Express">Sunday Express</a></i> on 4 January 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-caabu.org_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-caabu.org-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The article had first been published in April 2003 by the same paper and 'republished in error' according to Kilroy-Silk.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It did not attract much national attention when first published. According to Faisal Bodi, a columnist for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>, the reaction at its second publication was a measure of "the increasing organisation of the Muslim community". Bodi added: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Kilroy-Silk's suspension was precipitated by a flurry of web messages and emails circulated by various Muslim organisations notifying people of the outrage. The circulars from the Muslim Public Affairs Committee, the <a href="/wiki/Muslim_Council_of_Britain" title="Muslim Council of Britain">Muslim Council of Britain</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Human_Rights_Commission" title="Islamic Human Rights Commission">Islamic Human Rights Commission</a> and the Islamic Affairs Central Network, to mention a few, were focused, informative and, above all, empowering. They contained a chronology of Kilroyisms, names and contacts of editors at the BBC and the <i>Sunday Express</i>, and instructions on how to make complaints. In the end, the BBC was left with little choice.<sup id="cite_ref-guardianbodi_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardianbodi-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The article was strongly criticised by the <a href="/wiki/Commission_for_Racial_Equality" title="Commission for Racial Equality">Commission for Racial Equality</a>, whose head, <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Phillips" title="Trevor Phillips">Trevor Phillips</a>, said that the affair could have a "hugely unhelpful" effect. Bodi wrote that Kilroy-Silk should be prosecuted for <a href="/wiki/Incitement_to_ethnic_or_racial_hatred" title="Incitement to ethnic or racial hatred">incitement to racial hatred</a>. He said that Kilroy-Silk had also written statements critical of <a href="/wiki/Muslims" title="Muslims">Muslims</a> in 1989, during the <a href="/wiki/Salman_Rushdie" title="Salman Rushdie">Salman Rushdie</a> affair, and in a 1995 article in the <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Express" title="Daily Express">Daily Express</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-guardianbodi_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardianbodi-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By contrast, Ibrahim Nawar, the head of Arab Press Freedom Watch, came out in support of Kilroy-Silk in a <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Telegraph" class="mw-redirect" title="Daily Telegraph">Daily Telegraph</a></i> article. He said the politician was "an advocate of freedom of expression" and that he agreed with much of what Kilroy-Silk had said about Arab regimes.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A spokeswoman for Kilroy-Silk told <i><a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i>, "<a href="/wiki/Tokenism" title="Tokenism">He is not a racist at all – he employs a black driver</a>", a quote which is sometimes incorrectly attributed to Kilroy-Silk.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kilroy"><i>Kilroy</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Kilroy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>His talk show <i><a href="/wiki/Kilroy_(TV_series)" title="Kilroy (TV series)">Kilroy</a></i> started on 24 November 1986. Originally called <i>Day to Day</i>, the programme was renamed to <i>Kilroy</i> in September 1987. It ran until 2004 when it was cancelled by the BBC in reaction to the publication of an article by Kilroy-Silk entitled "We owe Arabs nothing" which was published in the <i><a href="/wiki/Sunday_Express" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunday Express">Sunday Express</a></i> on 4 January 2004. This provoked considerable controversy.<sup id="cite_ref-caabu.org_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-caabu.org-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). (November 2019)">failed verification</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shafted"><i>Shafted</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Shafted"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2001, Kilroy-Silk hosted a television programme on <a href="/wiki/ITV1" title="ITV1">ITV1</a> called <i><a href="/wiki/Shafted" title="Shafted">Shafted</a></i>. It was a quiz-show and at the end of the show, Kilroy-Silk would ask players whether they wished to "share" or to "shaft", with accompanying hand gestures.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The show was cancelled after four episodes, with sixteen recordings unaired, due to falling ratings. The <i>Penguin TV Companion</i> (2006) ranked it as the worst British television show of the 2000s.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Have_I_Got_News_for_You"><i>Have I Got News for You</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Have I Got News for You"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kilroy-Silk appeared as a guest on <i><a href="/wiki/Have_I_Got_News_for_You" title="Have I Got News for You">Have I Got News for You</a></i> on 30 April 2004. There was a heated exchange between him and his teammate <a href="/wiki/Paul_Merton" title="Paul Merton">Paul Merton</a>, in which Merton repeatedly implored Kilroy-Silk to "shut the fuck up". This was edited out of the televised episode but a clip from the recording appeared on social media some years later.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_television_appearances">Other television appearances</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Other television appearances"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 31 January 2005, a television programme, <i>Kilroy: Behind the Tan</i>, was broadcast on the BBC. Created in documentary style, it followed the politician from his election as an MEP for UKIP to his leaving the party.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In early February 2005, Kilroy-Silk worked on a <a href="/wiki/Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a> television programme called <i>Kilroy and the Gypsies</i>. He spent a week living with a family of <a href="/wiki/Romani_people" title="Romani people">Romany Gypsies</a> at a campsite in <a href="/wiki/Bedfordshire" title="Bedfordshire">Bedfordshire</a> to explore their lives. He also interviewed residents of surrounding villages.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In other appearances, he was the first contestant to be voted out of the 2008 edition of <i><a href="/wiki/I%27m_a_Celebrity...Get_Me_Out_of_Here!_(UK_series_8)" class="mw-redirect" title="I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (UK series 8)">I'm a Celebrity....Get Me Out of Here!</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 7 November 2009, he appeared as a panellist on the BBC's <i><a href="/wiki/Question_Time_(TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Question Time (TV series)">Question Time</a></i> programme.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In November 2008 <a href="/wiki/Derek_Clark" title="Derek Clark">Derek Clark</a> MEP complained that Kilroy-Silk was taking his parliamentary wage while being paid to appear in the reality TV show <i>I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-complaint_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-complaint-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his opinion the TV show represented a conflict of interest.<sup id="cite_ref-complaint_32-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-complaint-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Kilroy-Silk&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Farage-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Farage_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Farage_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFMaley2013" class="citation news cs1">Maley, Jonathan (29 June 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/incoming/nigel-farage-robert-kilroy-silk-crackers-4743774">"Farage: Robert Kilroy-Silk:went crackers"</a>. <i>Birmingham Mail</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Quote: "A cross-party coalition has called for Robert Kilroy-Silk to quit the European Parliament on the grounds that he seldom attends and does "little or no work" for his East Midlands constituency. [...] His four regional colleagues – Christopher Heaton-Harris (Conservative), Roger Helmer (Conservative), Phillip Whitehead (Labour) and Derek Clark (Ukip) – said they "deplore" Mr Kilroy-Silk's non-attendance. "He seems to have done little or no work as a constituency MEP for the East Midlands. This leaves five MEPs to do the work of six and the electorate have been short-changed," they wrote. "Mr Kilroy-Silk should either do the job for which he is paid, or get out and leave it to those who can." 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Titford">Jeffrey Titford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Knapman" title="Roger Knapman">Roger Knapman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigel_Farage" title="Nigel Farage">Nigel Farage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Pearson,_Baron_Pearson_of_Rannoch" title="Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch">Lord Pearson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Titford" title="Jeffrey Titford">Jeffrey Titford</a> (acting)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigel_Farage" title="Nigel Farage">Nigel Farage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diane_James" title="Diane James">Diane James</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigel_Farage" title="Nigel Farage">Nigel Farage</a> (acting)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Nuttall" title="Paul Nuttall">Paul Nuttall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Crowther" title="Steve Crowther">Steve Crowther</a> (acting)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Bolton_(British_politician)" title="Henry Bolton (British politician)">Henry Bolton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerard_Batten" title="Gerard Batten">Gerard Batten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Braine_(politician)" title="Richard Braine (politician)">Richard Braine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Mountain_(politician)" title="Pat Mountain (politician)">Patricia Mountain</a> (acting)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freddy_Vachha" title="Freddy Vachha">Freddy Vachha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Hamilton_(politician)" title="Neil Hamilton (politician)">Neil Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nick_Tenconi" title="Nick Tenconi">Nick Tenconi</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Deputy Leaders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Craig_Mackinlay" title="Craig Mackinlay">Craig Mackinlay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graham_Booth" title="Graham Booth">Graham Booth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Nattrass" title="Mike Nattrass">Mike Nattrass</a></li> <li><a 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nigel_Farage" title="Nigel Farage">Nigel Farage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Nattrass" title="Mike Nattrass">Mike Nattrass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Lott" title="David Lott">David Lott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petrina_Holdsworth" title="Petrina Holdsworth">Petrina Holdsworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Campbell_Bannerman" title="David Campbell Bannerman">David Campbell Bannerman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Whittaker_(UKIP_politician)" title="John Whittaker (UKIP politician)">John Whittaker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Nuttall" title="Paul Nuttall">Paul Nuttall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Crowther" title="Steve Crowther">Steve Crowther</a></li> <li>Paul Oakden</li> <li>Tony McIntyre</li> <li>Kirstan Herriot</li> <li>Ben Walker</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Deputy 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(page does not exist)">2024 leadership election</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">International affiliations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Europe_of_Freedom_and_Direct_Democracy" title="Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy">Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">History</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/UK_Independence_Party_representation_and_election_results" title="UK Independence Party representation and election results">National Electoral Performance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Federalist_League" title="Anti-Federalist League">Anti-Federalist League</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" 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Bullock">Jonathan Bullock</a> (defected)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Campbell_Bannerman" title="David Campbell Bannerman">David Campbell Bannerman</a> (defected)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Carver" title="James Carver">James Carver</a> (defected)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Derek_Clark" title="Derek Clark">Derek Clark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Coburn_(politician)" title="David Coburn (politician)">David Coburn</a> (defected)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trevor_Colman" title="Trevor Colman">Trevor Colman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Legge,_10th_Earl_of_Dartmouth" title="William Legge, 10th Earl of Dartmouth">William Dartmouth</a> (defected)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Etheridge" title="Bill Etheridge">Bill Etheridge</a> (defected)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigel_Farage" title="Nigel Farage">Nigel Farage</a> (defected)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Finch" title="Ray Finch">Ray Finch</a> (defected)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathan_Gill" title="Nathan Gill">Nathan Gill</a> 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