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Margaret Lucille Jeanne Parker is a Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands region for the UK Independence Party. She was elected in 2014. She was born in Grantham and educated at Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School and De Montfort University where she read Law.Parker stood as a candidate for Libertas in the 2009 European election in the East Midlands. Parker was second on the party list, but the party only won 0.6% of the vote and no seats.

By 2010, she had defected to UKIP. She stood in Sherwood in the 2010 general election, finishing 5th . In 2012, she stood in the Corby by-election, finishing third with 5,108 votes .Following the election of Henry Bolton as leader of UKIP in 2017, Parker was appointed deputy leader. After Bolton refused to stand down following a vote of no confidence from UKIP's National Executive Committee, Parker resigned as deputy leader.

✵ 24. July 1943

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“I am delighted to be named the first UKIP spokesman for Women and Equalities These important issues need to be promoted without patronising tokenism, virtue-signalling and political correctness.”

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