Henry David BoltonOBE (born 2 March 1963) is a former British politician who was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 29 September 2017 to 17 February 2018. He served in the British Army, attaining the rank of lance corporal, and went on to reach the rank of captain following his transfer to the Territorial Army from the Regular Army. Bolton has also served as a police officer.
Bolton became UKIP leader after winning the party's 2017 leadership election, and gave himself the additional role of Defence spokesman in January 2018. Bolton was removed as party leader in February 2018, following his relationship with a party member, and an ensuing controversy caused over racist comments she had made to a friend about Prince Harry's fiancée, Meghan Markle. Bolton's departure triggered UKIP's fourth leadership election in eighteen months. He subsequently announced plans to establish a new political party, to be called OneNation, that would adopt a Eurosceptic stance like UKIP. The party, under the name Our Nation, was registered with the Electoral Commission on 31 October 2018, but de-registered on 4 November 2019.
He left the Thames Valley Police in 1998 to take on overseas security and policing roles, including work for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in hostile environments, including Afghanistan.[1]
In July 2017, Bolton declared that he was standing in UKIP's forthcoming leadership election.[10] He began as a relative unknown in a field of eleven candidates; however, his standing improved as other candidates withdrew, and he received the endorsements of four of the party's MEPs: James Carver, Jill Seymour, Mike Hookem and Ray Finch.[11] The former UKIP leader Nigel Farage had acted as his political referee to stand for the leadership.[12]
In August 2017, Bolton challenged the decision to allow Anne Marie Waters to stand as party leader.[13] He said her candidacy was in violation of the party's rules of procedure as she was not considered to be 'in good standing' due to previous exclusions for elections.[14] He withdrew the challenge when faced with the possibility that it could lead to counter-suits against the party.[15] Subsequently, he was quoted by the press as saying that UKIP was in danger of becoming the "UK Nazi party" if the wrong candidate were elected as leader.[16]
Later in his leadership campaign, Bolton spoke of Britain's separation from the EU, saying that UKIP has "a moral responsibility to make sure Brexit is a success for everybody".[17]
Following his victory, on 28 September, Bolton said "Brexit is our core task", while separately declaring Islam a "concern",[18] although he believed an anti-Islam agenda would offer UKIP little gain.[19] In recognition of his new role, in October 2017 he was placed at Number 86 in 'The Top 100 Most Influential People on the Right' by commentator Iain Dale.[20]
Loss of UKIP leadership
On 4 January 2018, it was reported that Bolton had left his wife and embarked on a relationship with Jo Marney, a model and party member nearly thirty years his junior. As a consequence, Bolton faced demands from members of UKIP that he stand down as leader.[21][22] On 14 January it was reported that Marney had been suspended from UKIP following allegations that she had sent a series of SMS messages containing racist comments about Prince Harry's fiancée, Meghan Markle.[23] Her comments also targeted immigrants and Grenfell Tower families.[24] The following day, Bolton announced he had ended his relationship with Marney,[25] but on 18 January the Evening Standard reported that the two continued to be seen in each other's company.[26] Responding to these reports, Bolton suggested that the controversy would "fade away".[27]
On 19 January 2018, MEP Jonathan Arnott announced his resignation from UKIP.[28] In his resignation letter, he stated that he had lost confidence in Bolton, who he felt was "not the right person for the job" – but thought no better of those "jockeying" for position in the party.[28] On 21 January, the UKIP National Executive Committee (NEC) delivered a vote of no confidence in Bolton; only Bolton voted against the motion.[29] Bolton had made it clear earlier that day that he would not resign if the vote went against him, because he felt another leadership election would destroy the party. Consequently, at the emergency meeting of UKIP's NEC, it was decided that party members would be balloted on whether Bolton should be removed from office, as the NEC did not itself have the power to dismiss the leader.[29] On 22 January, Margot Parker resigned as deputy leader, claiming Bolton had left the party in "limbo". Immigration spokesman John Bickley, Trade and Industry spokesman William Dartmouth and other spokesmen resigned on the same day. Bolton responded that he would not quit as leader, and it was "time to drain the swamp" of the malcontents. He looked on the UKIP national executive as "not fit for purpose" and in need of reform. UKIP education spokesman David Kurten commented that Bolton had no chance of surviving a vote of party members.[30]
At an extraordinary general meeting held in Birmingham on 17 February, 63% backed a motion of no confidence in Bolton, and he was removed as UKIP leader, a decision that triggered UKIP's fourth leadership election in eighteen months.[31] Acting UKIP leader Gerard Batten subsequently suggested that Bolton had left the party.[32]
On 22 February 2018, Bolton and Marney appeared as guests on an edition of the ITV daytime magazine programme This Morning where Bolton argued that Marney's Grenfell Tower comments had been taken out of context and that it was important to have a debate about illegal immigration.[33]
Our Nation
On 6 March 2018, Bolton announced his intention to establish a new political party, OneNation, that would "campaign unceasingly for our full independence from the EU" and that would "mirror some of the changes that I sought to bring to UKIP".[34] The registration application for OneNation was rejected by the Electoral Commission as "likely to mislead voters",[35] its name being the same as an existing Islamic relief charity.[36] Our Nation was registered with the Electoral Commission on 31 October 2018.[37] Bolton was listed as leader, with Ben Glayzer as nominating officer and Hodgson Birkby as treasurer. The registered address was a suite in the Grand Hotel, Folkestone,[37] where Bolton was a permanent resident. Party membership was £27.50 a year, or £750 for "John Bull membership" which included drinks with the leader and a twice-yearly John Bull Newsletter.[38][a] The party was de-registered on 4 November 2019.[40]
Bolton has said that the effectiveness of policies is more important than whether they are from the left or the right.[43] As a Liberal Democrat he said that being tough on issues of law and order was part of the party's principles.[44] At the launch of his campaign to be UKIP leader, Bolton highlighted his opposition to the practice of female genital mutilation.[45]
Author
In September 2019, Bolton’s book What a State! was published.[46] It explores what he sees as failures in modern British political leadership, the inadequacies of MPs, challenges of political leadership, Brexit, populism, identity politics, the meeting of equal representation and equal opportunities, and the institutional culture of the civil service. A preface is by Lembit Öpik. A review in The New European commented that the book quoted from Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Einstein, but that nothing was as good as Jo Marney's explanation for claiming she felt like Anne Frank.[47]
Personal life
Bolton’s first marriage was to Karin Dohn, a Danish national. They had one daughter, born in 1985.[21] That marriage ended in divorce, and Bolton married secondly the Russian-born Lidia Gouniakova. In 2018, Gouniakova said Bolton had left her for Tatiana Smurova, another Russian, who became his third wife.[48][better source needed] She was known as Tatiana Smurova-Bolton, and they had two children together. In May 2016, Smurova-Bolton gave birth to their second child on a train at St Pancras railway station.[49] The couple separated at Christmas 2017, and their divorce took place in 2018.[21]
Bolton began a relationship with Jo Marney after meeting her shortly before Christmas 2017, and spent Christmas with her, after leaving his wife and two small children.[50] He said that he ended the relationship with Marney after details of her SMS message comments, in which she made overtly racist comments against Meghan Markle, the then fiancée and now wife of Prince Harry, came to light, though the two continued to see each other.[51] Bolton said he had been unaware of Marney's comments.[24] However, during their This Morning appearance following his resignation, Bolton and Marney confirmed their relationship had ended while he sought to keep his office, but that it had since been rekindled.[52] Later, he said that the relationship had never actually ended.[53] It was reported in August 2020 that Bolton and Marney had separated.[54]
Notes
^Our Nation was also the name of an earlier, unrelated UK far-right party founded by Martin Webster in 1983.[39]
^ ab"UKIP loses another MEP as Jonathan Arnott quits party". BBC News. BBC. 19 January 2018. Archived from the original on 20 January 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2018. Jonathan Arnott, MEP for the North East of England, said he had lost confidence in Mr Bolton but thought no better of those "jockeying" to replace him. UKIP, he added, had "shifted" its stance on religious and cultural issues to a degree he could not support.
^Steve Anglesey, "The MP, the convict and a question of character", The New European, 14 February 2020, accessed 2 July 2021; Jo Marney: "I didn't mean I was a Jewish girl that was going to be captured by the Nazis. I just couldn't go outside, or near windows".
^Foster, Alistair; Cockerham, Sophie (23 August 2020) "The party is over for scandal-hit Ukip lovers as Jo Marney reveals her relationship with Henry Bolton has fizzled out", Thurrock Mail
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