Jonathan Bullock

Jonathan Bullock
MEP
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
28 July 2017
Preceded by Roger Helmer
Constituency East Midlands
Personal details
Born (1963-03-03) 3 March 1963[1]
Nationality British
Political party Conservative ( - 2012)
UKIP (2012 to present)

Jonathan Bullock is a British politician. He is a UKIP Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East Midlands constituency.[2] He was third on the UKIP list for that constituency in the 2014 European election, and become an MEP on 1 August 2017, succeeding Roger Helmer who retired the previous day.

Bullock was previously a member of the cabinet of Kettering Borough Council and councillor for Queen Eleanor & Buccleuch ward, and had been a Conservative parliamentary and European candidate. He resigned from the Conservative Party in September 2012 to join UKIP.[3]

Education

Bullock attended Nottingham High School before studying at Portsmouth, receiving a BA (Hons) degree in politics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA).

Career

Bullock began his career working in the House of Commons for former MPs Andrew Stewart and Sir Richard Ottaway. He then went onto work in advertising agencies, becoming an account director responsible for a number of accounts. He subsequently worked for the Advertising Association (1994-1997) and for the British Road Federation (1997-2001), both in similar head of public relations roles. In 2002 he was appointed Director of Policy at the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK), working there for five years. He was appointed to a cabinet position on Kettering Borough Council in 2007 and over subsequent years developed a family property portfolio.

Political record

Bullock fought the Parliamentary seats of Manchester Gorton (1992) and Gedling (2001) and the 2004 European Elections in the East Midlands for the Conservative Party. He was elected to Kettering Borough Council in 2007, representing the ward of Queen Eleanor & Buccleuch, and appointed to the Cabinet of the Council in the same year. He was re-elected to Kettering Borough Council in 2011, again representing the same ward.

In 2012 Bullock moved to UKIP citing disillusionment with David Cameron and the Conservative Party on the EU as well as the general leftward drift of the Conservative Party. He fought the Northamptonshire County Council seat of Ise for UKIP in 2013 and 2017 and the 2014 European Elections, where he was third on the UKIP list. Following the retirement of Roger Helmer at the end of July 2017, Bullock moved up the list to succeed Helmer as an MEP for the East Midland on 1 August 2017.

References

  1. ↑ "Jonathan Bullock". European Parliament. Retrieved 7 August 2017.
  2. ↑ Gutteridge, Nick (5 August 2017). "'Cap Brexit bill at a billion' May urged to reject EU's 'laughable' £90bn divorce demand". Daily Express. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
  3. ↑ Brennan, David (12 September 2012). "Tory Kettering Council cabinet member jumps ship". Retrieved 7 August 2017.
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