Douglas Carswell
Douglas Carswell was a Conservative Party MP for Harwich from 2005 to 2010, and MP for Clacton from 2010.[1]
In August 2014 Carswell defected to join UKIP (the United Kingdom Independence Party).[2] He resigned his seat to force a by-election which he won in October 2014.[3] Carswell was then re-elected in the May 2015 general election with 44 per cent of the vote - he is UKIP's only MP.[4]
Carswell quit UKIP to become an independent MP from March 2017. He did not stand in the 2017 general election.
Affiliations
- Henry Jackson Society - political council
Notes
- ↑ Douglas Carswell, parliament.uk, accessed 14 October 2012
- ↑ Nicholas Watt, Tory MP Douglas Carswell defects to UKIP and forces by-election, The Guardian, 28 August 2014, accessed 11 September 2014.
- ↑ UKIP gains first elected MP with Clacton win, BBC News, 10 October 2014.
- ↑ BBC News Clacton, accessed 11 May 2015.
