[1] 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.
[2] 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".
[3] 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.
[4] In 2010, Walker represented the BNP as part of a delegation led by French National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen to Yasukuni Shrine in Chiyoda, Tokyo.
[3] When questioned, Walker said he was not a current soldier but was wearing the uniform in solidarity with British troops in Afghanistan.
[13] The results were announced by the returning officer, David O'Loughlin, on 29 July 2019 at an unnamed venue in north west London.