David Campbell Bannerman
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David Campbell Bannerman MEP |
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David Campbell Bannerman, 2014
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| Member of the European Parliament for East of England |
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Assumed office 20 July 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Tom Wise |
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26 May 1960 Bombay, India |
| Political party | Conservative (1985–2004; 2011–present) |
| Other political affiliations |
UK Independence Party (2004–2011) |
| Alma mater |
University of Edinburgh University of Pennsylvania |
David Campbell Bannerman MEP (born 28 May 1960 in Bombay) is a Conservative Member of the European Parliament for the East of England, having sat for the UK Independence Party until 24 May 2011. He served as UKIP deputy leader from 2006 until 2010, when he was replaced by Paul Nuttall.
Before joining UKIP, he was a Conservative activist who came to prominence as Chairman of the Bow Group. He stood for Parliament as a Conservative at the 1997 election in Glasgow Rutherglen and in 2001 in Warwick and Leamington. Campbell Bannerman joined UKIP in 2004, and was elected in 2009.
In 2015 he became co-chairman of a new Eurosceptic pressure group, Conservatives for Britain.
David Campbell Bannerman is a relative of former Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman who led the Liberal Party to a landslide victory over the Conservatives in the 1906 General Election.
Campbell Bannerman was educated at Bryanston School, the University of Edinburgh (MA, Economics and Politics) and at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He started work as a trainee accountant with Binder Hamlyn before becoming an account executive with Allen, Brady & Marsh. After working for HDM he became Executive Director of Vantagepoint Communications. Between 1997 and 1999 he was Communications Director/External Affairs Director of the Association of Train Operating Companies, before becoming Head of Communications, United News & Media plc in 2000.
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