Ukip MEPs - Defected, Arrested, Suspended, Convicted - The List
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Tom Wise
Stole £36,000 from Parliament and spent it on cars and wine. Jailed by Southwark Crown Court in November 2009. Read more
Stole £36,000 from Parliament and spent it on cars and wine. Jailed by Southwark Crown Court in November 2009. Read more
Ashley Mote
Stole £65,506 in illegally obtained benefits, and nearly £500,000 in fraudulent expenses. Jailed in 2007 and again in 2015. Read more
Stole £65,506 in illegally obtained benefits, and nearly £500,000 in fraudulent expenses. Jailed in 2007 and again in 2015. Read more

Quit UKIP in 2005 after MEPs discussed expelling him. Later set up his own party, but resigned from that too.
Nikki Sinclaire
Expelled by UKIP in 2009 after complaining about extremism in the party’s Parliamentary group. Later arrested for fraud and money-laundering. Read more
Mike Nattrass
Deselected by UKIP and quit in 2013, complaining of totalitarian leadership within the party. Read more
Godfrey Bloom
Eventually suspended and then quit as UKIP MEP in 2013 after a recording emerged of him calling female conference delegates “sluts”. Read more
Eventually suspended and then quit as UKIP MEP in 2013 after a recording emerged of him calling female conference delegates “sluts”. Read more
Marta Andreasen
Defected to the Tories in 2013, citing Nigel Farage’s “anti-women” and “Stalinist” tendencies.
David Campbell Bannerman
Defected to the Tories in 2011, reporting that UKIP was “beset by internal fighting”.
Amjad Bashir
Defected to the Tories in 2015. UKIP claimed it had already suspended him over financial irregularities. Read more
Janice Atkinson
Defected to the far-right parliamentary grouping led by Marine LePen following an expenses fraud investigation. Read more
Steven Woolfe
Flirted with defection to the Tories after failing in a leadership bid. Was allegedly punched by a fellow UKIP MEP, and quit the party shortly after. Read more
Roger Helmer
Resigned from Parliament amid investigation into misuse of some £100,000 of parliamentary funds.
Diane James
Quit in an “act of irrational selfishness”, according to Farage, after her short-lived leadership. Read more
Jonathan Arnott
Resigned because of the party’s “unpleasant nature” and its “sewer of party politics”. Read more
James Carver
Resigned because “experience has helped me appreciate how personal happiness and well-being can only be attained by staying true to one’s beliefs”.