Nicholas Richard Alexander Damian Hockney is a British former politician who was the leader of the One London party from 2005 to 2008.
He then moved to UKIP, for which he stood in Kensington and Chelsea at the 1999 by-election and the 2001 general election.
On 30 January 2005, he announced that he was defecting to Veritas, the new party founded by ex-UKIP MEP Robert Kilroy-Silk.
In February 2008, the One London Party announced that Hockney would be its candidate in the 2008 Mayoral election.
[2] However, on 27 March 2008, Hockney announced that he was pulling out of the race to become the Mayor of London.