Catherine Blaiklock
English businesswoman and former Leader of the Brexit Party
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| 2025 | Contested the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, coming 12th and receiving 95 votes, losing her deposit. |
| 2024 | Stood as an English Democrats candidate in the Great Yarmouth constituency, receiving 171 votes (0.4%). |
| February 3 2022 | Contested the Southend West by-election, coming fourth with 320 votes (2.15%), with mainstream parties choosing not to contest the seat. |
| January 2022 | Nominated to stand in the Southend West by-election by the English Democrats. |
| October 15 2021 | Following the murder of Sir David Amess, Blaiklock was nominated by the English Democrats to stand in the Southend West by-election. |
| July 3 2021 | Catherine Blaiklock announced her joining of the English Democrats in The Salisbury Review. |
| August 2019 | The Conservative Party rejected Blaiklock's membership application shortly after her public disclosure, with central office cancelling her application despite local branch recognition. |
| August 6 2019 | Blaiklock received a membership number from the Conservative Party. |
| July 23 2019 | Catherine Blaiklock applied to join the Conservative Party on the day of Boris Johnson's victory in the Conservative Party leadership election. |
| May 2019 | Despite her resignation as leader, The Guardian reported that Blaiklock remained a Director of the Brexit Party. |
| March 2019 | Forced to resign as leader of the Brexit Party after disclosure of anti-Islamic and racist online statements. |
| March 20 2019 | Blaiklock resigned as party leader after The Guardian discovered and inquired about her previously deleted anti-Islam messages on Twitter, which were subsequently recovered by Hope not Hate advocacy group. |
| February 8 2019 | Nigel Farage announced he would be a candidate for the Brexit Party in upcoming European Parliament elections. |
| January 2019 | The Guardian reported on Blaiklock's controversial blog posts and tweets about black men, which were subsequently deleted. These posts made claims about crime, fatherlessness, and academic achievement being linked to biological factors. |
| January 20 2019 | Catherine Blaiklock launched the pro-Brexit political party called the Brexit Party, using her Norfolk guest house as the party headquarters, and immediately sought Nigel Farage as its potential leader. |
| 2018 | Left UKIP after disagreeing with Gerard Batten's decision to appoint Tommy Robinson from the English Defence League as a personal advisor. |
| 2018 | Leaves her position as Economics Spokesperson for the UK Independence Party (UKIP). |
| September 2018 | Appointed as the Economic Spokesman of UKIP and served as the Eastern Regional Chair, during which she wrote articles for UKIP in The Daily Telegraph. |
| 2017 | Blaiklock ran as the UKIP candidate for Great Yarmouth in the general election, ultimately unsuccessful in her campaign. |
| 2016 | Blaiklock enters politics after a career as a financial currency and derivatives trader. |
| 2014 | Catherine Blaiklock joined UKIP, marking her first entry into political activism after having never voted before. |
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