Southport, Merseyside, UK. 14th April, Hamilton, UKIP Deputy Chairman (previously a controversial Conservative MP) addressing a members pre-election meeting held in the Royal Clifton Hotel. Southport has been earmarked by Ukip as a seat that “interests them greatly”, being a 4-way marginal, in the lead-up to the General Election. Southport is a place where Ukip in the past has come a number of close seconds, but has not yet made a break through in Council elections.
Mostyn Neil Hamilton (born 9 March 1949) is a British politician and former barrister, teacher, and Conservative MP for the Tatton constituency from 1983 to 1997. In 1997, after becoming involved in a political scandal known as the Cash-for-questions affair, Hamilton was defeated and left politics until 2011 when he was elected to the National Executive Committee of the UK Independence Party. Hamilton and his wife Christine became media celebrities. In Who's Who, Hamilton is described as a writer, actor, broadcaster and entertainer. In September 2011, Hamilton attended the annual conference of the UK Independence Party and let it be known that he was available to assist it. The party's leader Nigel Farage pledged to support him in the election for the National Executive Committee.[25] Hamilton was elected to the committee on 1 November 2011. He later become deputy chairman of the party.[27] Hamilton was demoted from his role as campaign director in April 2014. In the May 2014 local elections, he stood as a UKIP candidate in the St Mary's Park ward of Wandsworth London Borough Council and finished 8th of the 9 candidates with 396 votes.
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