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Biography
Jonathan Bullock is a British politician. He is a UKIP Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East Midlands region. He was third on the UKIP list in the 2014 European elections and succeeded Roger Helmer, who retired on 31 July 2017, to become an MEP on 1 August 2017.
Bullock was a member of the cabinet of Kettering Borough Council and councillor for Queen Eleanor & Buccleuch ward, and a former Conservative Parliamentary and European Candidate, who resigned from the Conservative Party in September 2012 to join UKIP.
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.