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NAMEDouglas Carswell

PARTYUK Independence Party

POSITIONN/a

PUBLICWHIP LINKhttp://publicwhip.com/mp.php?mpid=40175

CABINETFalse

CONSTITUENCYClacton

WEBSITEhttps://twitter.com/DouglasCarswell

TWITTERwww.douglascarswell.com/home/

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Bio

John Douglas Wilson Carswell (born 3 May 1971) is a British politician who in 2014 became the first elected Member of Parliament for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), representing Clacton.

Formerly a member of the Conservative Party, Carswell was elected as the MP for Harwich in 2005 and Clacton in 2010. In August 2014 he changed his political allegiance to UKIP and announced his resignation as an MP, thereby necessitating a by-election in which he stood and was returned as a UKIP MP. He explained that he was joining UKIP out of a desire to see "fundamental change in British politics" and because he believed "many of those at the top of the Conservative Party are simply not on our side. They aren't serious about the change that Britain so desperately needs."

Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Carswell

Constituency: Clacton

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