Steven Woolfe
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Steven Woolfe MEP |
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| UKIP Migration Spokesman | |
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In office 6 September 2015 – 17 October 2016 |
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| Leader | Nigel Farage |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | John Bickley |
| UKIP Economics Spokesman | |
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In office 22 February 2014 – 24 July 2014 |
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| Leader | Nigel Farage |
| Preceded by | Tim Congdon |
| Succeeded by | Patrick O'Flynn |
| Member of the European Parliament for North West England |
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Assumed office 1 July 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Robert Atkins |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
6 October 1967 Moss Side, Manchester, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party |
Independent (2016–present) UKIP (2010–2016) |
| Education | St. Bede's College, Manchester |
| Alma mater |
Aberystwyth University; City Law School |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Website | www |
Steven Marcus Woolfe (born 6 October 1967) is a British barrister and independent politician, who has served as a Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region since the 2014 European election. Woolfe was considered a frontrunner in UKIP's 2016 leadership election, but was excluded from the race after submitting his nomination late. After Diane James resigned from the party leadership, Woolfe was standing in the second UKIP leadership election of 2016, but withdrew from the contest and the party after he was allegedly injured by a fellow MEP. Woolfe subsequently resigned from UKIP in October 2016, describing the party as "ungovernable".
Woolfe was born in Moss Side in Manchester and studied law at Aberystwyth University, after which he worked as a barrister. In 2011 he was elected to UKIP's National Executive Committee. He contested as the UKIP candidate at the 2015 general election.
Woolfe, the eldest of a family of four, was born in Moss Side, in Manchester, and grew up in the Manchester suburb of Burnage. His younger half-brother is Nathan Woolfe, a footballer who has played for various clubs as a striker. Both his parents were born in Manchester: his mother to an Irish mother, and his English father to a British Jewish mother and a Black American father.
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