UKIP appoint disgraced former MP as new leader
Neil Hamilton is at least the seventh person to lead UKIP since Nigel Farage stood down from the role in 2016 following the EU referendum.
Neil Hamilton is at least the seventh person to lead UKIP since Nigel Farage stood down from the role in 2016 following the EU referendum.
HMRC found the 'Bad Boy of Brexit' owes just over £160,000 on almost £1 million in donations to UKIP.
"The saddest thing of all for Edwin Poots is that he’s not even a record-breaker: Diane James was leader of UKIP for 18 days in 2016," one person said.
Campaigning for the London mayoral election has got underway, with Dr Peter Gammons in the running for UKIP.
She also said that she was "sick to death" of Brits being put to the "back of the queue for everything".
Dr Gammons follows in the illustrious footsteps of former UKIP leader Dick Braine, who briefly helmed the party before resigning, believing that it was “on its last legs”.
In 1996 it was reported Hamilton had taken money in brown envelopes from Mohamed Al Fayed in a “cash-for-questions” scandal.
Freddy Vachha was announced as the new leader of UKIP today.
The Brexit-backing businessman had argued the law on inheritance tax on political donations breached his human rights under European law.
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