John Whittaker (UKIP politician)

British politician (born 1945)

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John Whittaker


Chairman of the UK Independence Party
In office 27 September 2006 – 8 September 2008
Leader	Nigel Farage
Preceded by	David Campbell Bannerman
Succeeded by	Paul Nuttall
Member of the European Parliament for North West England
In office 13 June 2004 – 4 June 2009
Preceded by	Richard Fletcher-Vane
Succeeded by	Paul Nuttall

Personal details
Born	(1945-06-07) 7 June 1945 (age 79) Oldham, Lancashire, England
Political party	UKIP
Alma mater	BA (Cape Town) BSc (Queen Mary University of London) PhD (University of Cape Town)

John Whittaker (born 7 June 1945) is a former UK Independence Party (UKIP) politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North West England region from 2004 to 2009.

Whittaker was born in Oldham, Lancashire. He was educated at Queen Mary University of London (BSc Physics, 1966) and the University of Cape Town (PhD Physics, 1980; BA Economics, 1982). He is a senior lecturer in economics at Lancaster University. His main research and teaching interests are in monetary policy and macroeconomics, and recently he has taken a particular interest in the problems associated with the single currency.

He stood for UKIP in the Littleborough and Saddleworth by-election in 1995 where he came 5th out of 10 candidates behind the Official Monster Raving Loony Party.

Whittaker was the UKIP's lead candidate in the North West for the European Parliament elections in 1999. Though UKIP gained 6.5% of the vote in the region, he fell short of being elected by about 0.5 per cent. However, in 2004 he was more successful, being one of 12 UKIP candidates to win a European seat in the big UKIP breakthrough of that year.

He contested the 2005 general election for the constituencies of Ashton under Lyne, Crosby, Heywood and Middleton, Hyndburn, Manchester Central, Rochdale, Stalybridge and Hyde and Wigan.

In 2005, Whittaker became UKIP's official spokesman on Economic and Monetary Affairs. In September 2006, following the election of Nigel Farage as leader of UKIP, Whittaker was appointed party chairman.

References

"John Whittaker". Lancaster University. Retrieved 21 July 2016.

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Party political offices
Preceded byDavid Campbell-Bannerman	Chairman of the UK Independence Party 2007–2008	Succeeded byPaul Nuttall
Preceded byRichard Fletcher-Vane	Member of the European Parliament for North West England 2004–2009	Succeeded byPaul Nuttall

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Leaders	Alan Sked Craig Mackinlay (acting) Michael Holmes Jeffrey Titford Roger Knapman Nigel Farage Lord Pearson Jeffrey Titford (acting) Nigel Farage Diane James Nigel Farage (acting) Paul Nuttall Steve Crowther (acting) Henry Bolton Gerard Batten Richard Braine Patricia Mountain (acting) Freddy Vachha Neil Hamilton Nick Tenconi
Deputy Leaders	Craig Mackinlay Graham Booth Mike Nattrass David Campbell Bannerman Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Paul Nuttall Peter Whittle Margot Parker Mike Hookem Patricia Mountain Rebecca Jane Nick Tenconi
Chairs	Nigel Farage Mike Nattrass David Lott Petrina Holdsworth David Campbell Bannerman John Whittaker Paul Nuttall Steve Crowther Paul Oakden Tony McIntyre Kirstan Herriot Ben Walker
Deputy Chairs	Neil Hamilton Diane James Suzanne Evans William Legge Margot Parker Pete Muswell (interim)
Treasurers	Craig Mackinlay Marta Andreasen Stuart Wheeler Andrew Reid Mark Harland

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Internal elections	2006 leadership (Farage) 2009 leadership (Pearson) 2010 leadership (Farage) July–September 2016 leadership (James) October–November 2016 leadership (Nuttall) 2017 leadership (Bolton) 2018 leadership (Batten) 2019 leadership (Braine) 2020 leadership (Vachha) 2021 leadership (Hamilton) 2024 leadership election
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Former MEPs

Stuart Agnew (voted out)
Tim Aker (defected)
Marta Andreasen (defected)
Jonathan Arnott (defected)
Janice Atkinson (expelled)
Amjad Bashir (defected)
Gerard Batten (voted out)
Godfrey Bloom (expelled)
Graham Booth
Louise Bours (defected)
John Bufton
Jonathan Bullock (defected)
David Campbell Bannerman (defected)
James Carver (defected)
Derek Clark
David Coburn (defected)
Trevor Colman
William Dartmouth (defected)
Bill Etheridge (defected)
Nigel Farage (defected)
Ray Finch (defected)
Nathan Gill (defected)
Roger Helmer
Michael Holmes (defected)
Mike Hookem (voted out)
Diane James (defected)
Robert Kilroy-Silk (defected)
Roger Knapman
Ashley Mote (expelled)
Mike Nattrass (defected)
Paul Nuttall (defected)
Patrick O'Flynn (defected)
Julia Reid (defected)
Nikki Sinclaire (expelled)
Jeffrey Titford
John Whittaker
Tom Wise (expelled)
Steven Woolfe (defected)
Jane Collins (defected)
Margot Parker (defected)
Jill Seymour (defected)

Former MPs

Douglas Carswell (defected)
Mark Reckless (voted out)
Bob Spink (voted out)

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