Please do whatever you can do! Christine Hamilton and Neil Hamilton attend The 20th BRIT Awards with Mastercard, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, UK, Friday 03 March 2000. "I am aware that one potential witness sought advice from Central Office but was told that no advice could be given" Tebbit accused Campbell-Savours of making his accusations behind the cloak of parliamentary privilege and left the chamber to make his reply. "Unfortunately, I had miscalculated. On 25 October, the press reported new evidence of inappropriate witness contact. It was probably that, as much as a desire to front things out, that led the pair to relaunch themselves as what Neil calls "media butterflies living on our wits, broadcasting. He was defeated by an independent candidate, Martin Bell, in the 1997 general election. Today I have sent a transcript of that tape to the Attorney-General. [citation needed], Hamilton and Howarth reversed their earlier position and dropped their libel action against Pedley. HIGNFY S31E05 - Alexander Armstrong, Fern Britton & Andy Hamilton. [30], Prior to the 1997 general election, Hamilton determined to try to retain his parliamentary seat. The Guardian reported that "The spotlight had swivelled to Phil Pedley, the Tory defendant who remained adamant he would fight on alone, backed by independent funds and, he claims, a wide range of Conservative supporters. January 2002: The Hamiltons are. He then lost an appeal and ended up in dire financial straits.When he lost his Tatton seat to the anti-sleaze candidate Martin Bell, the BBC war reporter, his wife confronted the newsman. [37] He later become deputy chairman of the party. She is famous for being a Autobiographer. [53], In April 2019, Hamilton was the UKIP candidate in the by-election for Newport West. Features. [45] In leaked emails, he was accused by UKIP's biggest donor, Arron Banks, of being a "corrupt old Tory". Appearing together on GB News, the two were asked about their time in Cardiff Bay during Neil Hamilton's time as a UKIP member between 2016 and 2021. [40], In the elections for the National Assembly for Wales on 5 May 2016, he was elected as a Member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Mid and West Wales Region, one of seven UKIP candidates to win a seat through the Regional List system. "[23] Hamilton strongly encouraged Thatcher to persist. All the "cash-for-questions" evidence was sent to Sir Gordon Downey, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. Tuesday December 3, 2019: On General Hospital today, Willow takes a pregnancy test, Sonny tries to find out what Jax is hiding, and Kendra dies after the accident. He received a BScEcon degree in economics and politics from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1970, and an MScEcon degree in economics and politics in 1975. The Party Chairman Sir Norman Fowler was outraged, and said the Conservative Party was not related to the Western Goals Institute. Both Hamilton and Michael Brown had received a 6,000 honorarium and hospitality from Skoal Bandits. He criticised BBC Wales for excluding UKIP from the main leaders' debates, with Hamilton instead being invited to a separate debate alongside Reform UK and the Wales Green Party. Not many people bought. "Latin may have been virtually banished from the courtrooms, but the police still use the term MO when referring to a rogue's known habits, though few constables now realise that it is short for modus operandi. Christine! ][15], On 12 March 1983, Hamilton was selected as the Conservative candidate for the newly created Tatton constituency. The following year, he opposed the plan for Britain to join the European Communities. But the offers started rolling in. Hamilton was a member of the "No Turning Back group", advocating Thatcherite policies. The eventual winner would become the UKIP Assembly Group Leader and ultimately the party's main spokesperson for Wales. The programme also made the claim that Hamilton gave a Nazi salute in Berlin while "messing around" on a parliamentary visit in August 1983. There was no further mention of hotel bills.The Hamiltons are vulgar and greedy. In September 2020, Hamilton was named acting leader of UKIP, following the suspension from the party of the previous leader, Freddy Vachha. Christine fronted her own BBC Choice chat show, interviewing other notorious curiosities from James Hewitt to Jonathan Aitken, and naturally giving them a silky soft ride. Ni-Vanuatu residents have emerged battered but still standing. Alexis manages to pull herself up and make her way to Kendra's car. He left the Conservative Party in 2002 and joined UKIP. He argued there was no evidence that leaded petrol was damaging the environment, or health, and that jobs would be lost in his constituency if leaded petrol was banned. But they are petty sleaze-mongers, not arch-villains. What happened to Enoch Powell? Neil and Christine Hamilton are very far from being the only people able to parlay notoriety into fame and money. [38] Hamilton was demoted from his role as campaign director in April 2014. (British TV series) participants, Articles with unsourced statements from April 2020, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 27 November 2022, at 09:29. It was pointed out the BBC had not even begun to put its case". Hamilton resisted the pressure from senior Conservatives and Conservative Central Office to stand down. In November 1990, Michael Heseltine initiated a leadership challenge to Margaret Thatcher. There is no sign of any falling away of plastic use after the days on which Neil Hamilton is supposed to have received al-Fayed's brown-enveloped shilling. [21] Hamilton was obliged to concede he had been wrong to make no reference to the payment "when I went on those meetings with Ministers". Edwina Currie, a former health minister, gave evidence. He subsequently lost a libel case on the matter. How nastily entertaining the spectacle is. ALLEGATIONS RELATING TO NON-DECLARATION OF INTERESTS b. Wednesday An evening with Neil & Christine Hamilton - Southend Central Library, Victoria Avenue, Southend on Sea, Essex. She attended Wentworth College, an independent boarding school for girls in Bournemouth [3] and a co-educational Grammar School in Christchurch, Dorset. He came under pressure to step down after the resignation of another minister, Tim Smith, on 19 October 1994, after Smith had admitted to taking money in the cash-for-questions affair. In 1973, as a representative of the Federation of Conservative Students, Hamilton attended a conference of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI). 28:45. Hamilton was a teacher at St John's College in Southsea between 1973 and 1976. [46] Nathan Gill subsequently left the UKIP group in the assembly to sit as an independent,[47] resulting in Neil Hamilton becoming UKIP's Leader in Wales in September 2016. "[75], The media began to focus on the remaining unsettled case. Other MPs active in the No Turning Back Group included Michael Portillo, Peter Lilley, Alan Duncan and Gerald Howarth. [6], Hamilton spent many years working as secretary to various Conservative MPs, first Wilfred Proudfoot MP for Brighouse and Spenborough, then Gerald Nabarro, MP for South Worcestershire. He invited Tebbit to make a statement in the House. Hamilton said he could "happily" work with Mr Bennett, but Jones said she had "a lot of thinking to do". He also pointed out that one person present at the incident, Julian Lewis, was a Jew and that a "number of his relatives were killed by the Nazis during the war". [116], On 9 May 1997, Hamilton and his wife appeared on the current affairs satire quiz programme Have I Got News for You. The irony is that had the Hamiltons not been such shameless publicity seekers, they would not have attracted the false accusation that has proved so profitable in the first place. He grew up in Ammanford in Carmarthenshire and joined the Conservative Party in 1964, at the age of 15. She has been married to Neil Hamilton since 17 February 1978. [20] Hamilton, together with Michael Brown, became an enthusiastic supporter of US Tobacco's product Skoal Bandits, a tea-bag type of pouch of tobacco designed for chewing. They each paid 7,500 towards the paper's legal costs. Hamilton brought legal action for libel against The Guardian. He was instructed by the presiding officer to apologise for the remark. They would now have to prolong their stay in Hong Kong, and in the circumstances, British Airways would surely wish to cover their hotel bill.British Airways had other plans. [64] The Guardian newspaper highlighted Hamilton's admission in The Sunday Times in an article he wrote after the court case that he did give "a little salute with two fingers to his nose to give the impression of a toothbrush moustache. It had never occurred to Neil Hamilton to do other than observe the ministerial code of ethics. And for her support, Sir Gerald rewarded her with a gleaming, dark-blue Mini.But as for connections with real villainy, it is not even clear whether Neil Hamilton was guilty of the original offence that ended his political career: receiving brown envelope subventions from al-Fayed.The circumstantial evidence is strong. Legal career [ edit] From September 1979, Hamilton practised as a barrister. 38:38. [27], Hamilton also interviewed successful women in business for the digital channel Simply Money, has presented programmes on Sky Digital's Destination Lunch, and stood in for Gloria Hunniford and Fern Britton on Open House and This Morning. [86] In the Commons, Campbell-Savours stated: "Central Office set about an elaborate attempt to interfere directly with potential witnesses. [9] Neil Hamilton's later failure in a libel case against the Egyptian businessman, Mohamed Al-Fayed,[10][11] would lead to her husband's bankruptcy. [4][5] In 2006, they released a song coinciding with the World Cup, "England Are Jolly Dee". Smith admitted his guilt and resigned immediately. April 28, 2021, 10:03 am. He became leader of UKIP Wales in 2016. Neil and Christine Hamilton pose on the set of GMTV. Anne Spackman and Anthony Bevins, "BBC witness shaken rigid", Pedley Prepared Court Statement, 3 December 1986. They said that extracting an apology from Pedley was not "worth the bother". [citation needed], No longer a minister at the time of the 1995 Conservative Party leadership election, Hamilton did not support Major. If Hamilton and Smith had remained in parliament, Downey said he might have recommended long periods of suspension for both. [30] Their accuser, Nadine Milroy-Sloan, was charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, and in 2002 sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for making the false accusations.[31][32][33][34]. In the early 1970s, Hamilton was the founder of the Eldon League, a right-wing social organisation given to having picnics and dinners 'and having a good time'. Not much. Christine Hamilton's age is 73. Following his election to the National Assembly for Wales, he was UKIP Assembly Group Leader from 2016 to 2018 and again from 2019 to 2021. Neil Hamilton eventually reached the post of Minister for Corporate Affairs between 1992 and 1994 in Prime Minister John Major's government. He was a barrister but always said he would not return to that "constipated" profession.He married Christine in a hurried ceremony in Cornwall while he was fighting his parliamentary campaign in 1983.At that wedding, the Hamiltons typically used as a buttonhole the rose Invincible, specially grown, bred and named as a tribute to the Falklands task force.He was a very visible presence in the House of Commons. [66], During the case, Hamilton said he saw himself as being "the Mike Yarwood of the Federation of Conservative Students"[67] and that he frequently did impressions of public figures such as Frankie Howerd, Harold Wilson, Edward Heath, Charles De Gaulle and Enoch Powell. Anne Spackman, "New Evidence emerges in BBC libel case".
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