Adam Walker (British politician)
| Adam Walker | |
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| Chairman of the British National Party | |
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Assumed office 27 July 2015 Acting: 21 July 2014 – 27 July 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Nick Griffin |
| Deputy Chairman of the British National Party | |
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In office 21 July 2014 – 27 July 2015 |
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| Preceded by |
Office created (Created by BNP National Executive to move Walker into the acting chairman position) |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
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| Born | 1969 (age 47–48) Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | British National Party |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence | Spennymoor, County Durham |
| Profession | Politician |
Adam Walker (born April 1969) is the chairman of the British National Party. He was elected in a leadership election on 27 July 2015. He was previously acting chairman being appointed by the National Executive when the former leader, Nick Griffin, resigned.
In September 2012, Walker was given a six-month suspended jail sentence and twelve month driving ban for an incident on 23 April 2011, in which he verbally abused three schoolboys, who were between the ages of 10 and 12, chasing them in his Land Rover Discovery and slashing the tyres on their bikes with a sheath knife.
According to an interview on the BNP website, Walker was born in Bishop Auckland in 1969 into a working-class background. The eldest of three children, his father was a joiner and his mother a seamstress.
According to Walker, on 14 June 1985, two months after his sixteenth birthday, he joined the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars and served for five years as a battle tank crewman. Following discharge from the army, Walker states that he worked for some time in the construction industry before studying for a National Diploma in land use and recreation and later became a technology teacher at Houghton Kepier College near Sunderland, a post from which he was dismissed following allegations of "using school computers to look at extremist literature and engage in racially and religiously intolerant chatter online during school-time."
In September 2012, Walker was given a six-month suspended jail sentence and twelve month driving ban for an incident on 23 April 2011, in which he verbally abused three schoolboys, who were between the ages of 10 and 12, chasing them in his Land Rover Discovery and slashing the tyres on their bikes with a sheath knife. After investigation by the General Teaching Council, Walker was banned for life from the profession in 2013. He challenged the ban in court, but his legal challenge was dismissed in February 2014.
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