Mike Nattrass

Michael Nattrass ( born December 14, 1945 in Leeds, Yorkshire ) is a British politician ( UKIP ), and since the European election 2004 Member of the European Parliament.

Nattrass began his political career in the New Britain Party, for which he took up at a by-election for a seat of the House in 1994 but was able to unite only 146 votes. In the parliamentary election 1997 Nattrass for the euro-skeptic Referendum Party went to, but again without success. Finally, he joined the United Kingdom Independence Party ( UKIP ), for which he entered in the 2004 European elections as the leading candidate for the constituency of West Midlands in the European Parliament. In 2008 he joined again at at a by-election to the British House of Commons, when he came to around 2.2 % with 922 votes. In the European elections in the UK In 2009, he was again a regional top candidate of his party and win a mandate again. In the election for UKIP party chairman in 2009, he was the fourth of five candidates.

In the European Parliament Nattrass was like the other UKIP members to 2009 members of the EU -skeptic Independence and Democracy Group (Ind / Dem), then the new Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group ( EFD). On June 23, 2010, however, he gave his resignation from the group known as this is not clear enough more engaged in the discharge of Great Britain from the EU. He explained, however, continue to want to join the party UKIP remain. Nattrass sits on the Committee on Transport and Tourism. In December 2012, he joined the EFD in again. After he was no longer situated to the 2014 European elections UKIP, he left in September 2013, the Group and this time the party.