Roger Helmer

Roger Helmer
Member of the European Parliament
for East Midlands
In office
1 May 1999 – 28 July 2017
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byJonathan Bullock
Personal details
Born (1944-01-25) 25 January 1944 (age 80)
London, England
Political partyConservative (1993–2012)
UKIP (2012–2017)
Alma materChurchill College, Cambridge

Roger Helmer (born 25 January 1944) is a British politician and businessman. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East Midlands region from 1999 to 2017. Before becoming an MEP, he was a business executive.

Helmer was elected to the European Parliament in 1999, 2004, and 2009 as a member of the Conservative Party and in 2014 as a member of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), having defected from the Conservatives to UKIP in March 2012.[1][2] He has described himself as a eurosceptic and is a supporter of the Better Off Out campaign.

  1. ^ "Candidate Profile: Roger Helmer". MiCandidate.eu. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 10 August 2009.
  2. ^ "Conservative MEP Roger Helmer joins UKIP". BBC. 2 March 2012.