Douglas Carswell
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Douglas Carswell was a Conservative Party MP for Harwich from 2005 to 2010, and MP for Clacton from 2010.[1]
In August 2014 he defected to join UKIP (the United Kingdom Independence Party).[2] He resigned his seat to force a bye-election which he won in October 2014.[3]
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 byelection, The Guardian, 28 August 2014, accessed 11 September 2014.
- ↑ UKIP gains first elected MP with Clacton win, BBC News, 10 October 2014.
