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| Member of the European Parliament forSouth East England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 1 July 2014 – 1 July 2019[1][2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Leader | Paul Nuttall Steve Crowther(Acting) Henry Bolton Gerard Batten | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | James Elles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Robert Rowland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1963-06-02)2 June 1963 (age 62) Liverpool, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | UK Independence Party (until April 2019) Brexit Party (April–May 2019) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Raymond Finch (born 2 June 1963) is a British politician who served as aMember of the European Parliament (MEP) forSouth East England between2014 and2019.
The fourth named candidate on theUK Independence Party (UKIP)list for the South East England constituency, he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament after the 2014 European Parliamentary Election.
Finch was the leader of the UKIP group onHampshire County Council, standing down on election to theEuropean Parliament.[3] He resigned as a councillor in January 2017 following his appointment as head of the UKEurope of Freedom and Direct Democracy delegation in the European Parliament.[4]
On 17 April 2019, Finch left UKIP to join theBrexit Party.[5] He was not selected as a Brexit Party candidate for the 2019 European Parliamentary election, and ceased to sit as a Brexit Party MEP on 26 May 2019.
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