Margot Parker

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Margot Parker
MEP
Deputy Chair of the UK Independence Party & Spokesperson for Home Affairs
In office
27 February 2018 – 15 April 2019
Leader Gerard Batten
Preceded by The Earl of Dartmouth (Deputy Chair)
Richard Bingley (Home Affairs)
Succeeded by Vacant
Deputy Leader of the UK Independence Party
In office
18 October 2017 – 22 January 2018
Leader Henry Bolton
Preceded by Peter Whittle
Succeeded by Mike Hookem
UKIP Spokesperson for Women and Equalities
In office
2 December 2016 – 18 October 2017
Leader Paul Nuttall
Preceded by Office established
Succeeded by Star Anderton
UKIP Spokesperson for Small Business
In office
24 July 2014 – 1 December 2016
Leader Nigel Farage
Preceded by Office established
Succeeded by Ernie Warrender
Member of the European Parliament
for East Midlands
In office
1 July 2014 – 1 July 2019[1][2]
Preceded by Derek Clark
Succeeded by Annunziata Rees-Mogg
Personal details
Born (1943-07-24) 24 July 1943 (age 81)
Grantham, England, UK
Political party UK Independence Party (2010–2019)
Other political
affiliations		 Brexit Party (April–May 2019)
Alma mater De Montfort University

Margaret Lucille Jeanne Parker (born 24 July 1943) is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East Midlands region between 2014 and 2019.[3] She was born in Grantham and educated at Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School and De Montfort University where she read Law.[4]

Parker stood as a candidate for Libertas in the 2009 European election in the East Midlands. Parker was second on the party list, the party won 0.6% of the vote and no seats.

By 2010, she had defected to the UK Independence Party (UKIP). She stood in Sherwood in the 2010 general election, finishing 5th (1,490 votes, 3%). In 2012, she stood in the Corby by-election, finishing third with 5,108 votes (14.3%).[5]

In 2014, Parker was nominated as the second candidate on the East Midlands list for UKIP in preparation for the 2014 European Parliament election. She was subsequently elected alongside Roger Helmer as a UKIP MEP for the East Midlands constituency.

Following the election of Henry Bolton as leader of UKIP in 2017, Parker was appointed deputy leader.[6] After Bolton refused to stand down following a vote of no confidence from UKIP's National Executive Committee, Parker resigned as deputy leader.[7]

During the leadership of Gerard Batten, Parker served as Shadow Home Secretary and Deputy Chair of the UK Independence Party, but resigned her post and membership of the party in April 2019, defecting to the Brexit Party, alongside Jane Collins & Jill Seymour,[8] citing Batten's defence of Carl Benjamin's 2016 tweet saying he "wouldn't even rape" Labour MP Jess Phillips.

Despite her defection, Parker was not selected as a Brexit Party candidate for the 2019 European Parliament elections, and ceased to be a Member of the European Parliament on 26 May 2019.

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