Christopher Gill

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Christopher Gill RD
Gill in 2010

Member of Parliament for Ludlow
In office 11 June 1987 – 14 May 2001
Preceded by	Eric Cockeram
Succeeded by	Matthew Green

Personal details
Born	Christopher John Freddy Gill (1936-10-28) 28 October 1936 (age 88) Wolverhampton, England
Political party	UKIP (2006–present) Conservative (until 2001)

Christopher John Fred Gill RD (born 28 October 1936) is a British politician, and a former member of the National Executive Committee of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). He is the president of The Freedom Association (TFA). A former Conservative Party Member of Parliament, he was one of the Maastricht Rebels of the mid-1990s.

Biography

Gill was born in Wolverhampton, where he later became a local councillor, and was educated locally at Birchfield Preparatory School, then at Shrewsbury School. His national service was in the Royal Navy, serving aboard HMS Modeste and HMS Birmingham. He retired as Chairman of his family's sausage-making business, F.A. Gill Ltd., in 2006.

Gill served as Conservative MP for Ludlow from 1987 to 2001, when he stepped down. He was known as the "Butcher from Ludlow" because of his family company being a meat processing firm.^{[citation needed]} He had the Conservative whip withdrawn over the EC Finance Bill on 28 November 1994.

As a constituency MP, Gill fought against the closure of local cottage hospitals. Gill was also known for being an expert on areas of European Union legislation, and he was a notable Eurosceptic.^{[citation needed]}

Shortly before leaving Parliament in 2001, he resigned his membership of the Conservatives. In 2006, Gill announced that he had joined the UK Independence Party (UKIP), having endorsed the party's policies at the 2004 European Parliament election. He was an elected member of UKIP's National Executive Committee from 2007 until 2010. He stood for Ludlow as a UKIP candidate at the 2010 general election, coming fourth with 2,127 votes, 4.4% of the total, losing his deposit but almost tripling the 2005 vote. At the time of the election, Gill stated that his reasoning for standing was: "I am standing against 'call me Dave's' Tories because I cannot tolerate their utter contempt for the concerns of voters on matters of immigration, economy, individual liberty and the broken promise of a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty."^[1]

He was chairman of The Freedom Association from 2001, before becoming its president in 2007.

Publications

Whip's Nightmare: Diary of a Maastricht Rebel. The Memoir Club. 2003. ISBN 978-1841040868.
Cracking the Whip. Bretwalda Books. 13 December 2012. ISBN 978-1909099067.

References

^ Former Tory MP to stand for UKIP in Ludlow

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Christopher Gill.

Official website
Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Christopher Gill

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Eric Cockeram	Member of Parliament for Ludlow 1987–2001	Succeeded by Matthew Green

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