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Jun 26, 2024 · Gerard Batten, in alliance with Tommy Robinson, formerly of the English Defence League, attempted to revive Ukip, from 2018-19, and moved the party to the neo-fascist right. “Batten is a charmless idiot,” Farage cut in.
1 day ago · Veteran and former long-serving Antrim and Newtownabbey-based councillor, Robert Hill was appointed by Gerard Batten as UKIP's Spokesman for Northern Ireland in May 2018. In August 2018, Welsh Assembly Member Gareth Bennett was elected as leader of UKIP in Wales after a membership ballot.
2 days ago · On 15 April 2019, three more sitting female UKIP MEPs defected to the Brexit Party, criticising UKIP's nomination of Benjamin as a candidate. In particular, Collins noted UKIP leader Gerard Batten's defence of Benjamin's "use of a non-rape threat as 'satire'" to be an especially compelling factor.
Jun 27, 2024 · Gerard Batten, who had become the leader of the party that year (Farage had stood down in 2016 to get his “life back” after successfully campaigning for a Leave vote in the EU referendum), had...
3 days ago · The following polls asked about voters' opinions on Gerard Batten, who served as Leader of the UK Independence Party from 14 April 2018 to 2 June 2019, and Acting Leader between 17 February 2018 and 14 April 2018.
Jun 17, 2024 · Blaiklock stood for UKIP in Norfolk County council elections in May 2017, again for UKIP in June 2017’s general election in Great Yarmouth, quit UKIP and its controversial leader Gerard Batten in controversy to form the Brexit party, from which she was later ejected, also in controversial circumstances, and was then turned down for ...
5 days ago · In particular, Farage objected to then-leader Gerard Batten’s appointment of far-Right activist Tommy Robinson as an advisor, adding that Ukip “wasn’t founded to be a party fighting a religious crusade”.
