Patricia Ann Mountain[1] is a British politician who served as the Interim Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2019 to 2020.
Mountain was one of ten UKIP candidates who stood for the South East England constituency in the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, which also included Piers Wauchope, another interim leader; none of them was elected.
Mountain had retired by April 2019,[4] and was a member of the National Executive Committee when she was appointed interim leader on 16 November 2019[6] to succeed Richard Braine.
[10] Some people noted a resemblance to Mountain and the title character of the comedy series Catherine Tate's Nan.
Mountain was appointed as Deputy Leader of UKIP in July 2020, but had left the role by September 2020.