Rebecca Jane Sutton (née Sutton-Gregory; born 1984 or 1985[1]) is a British media personality, solicitor, businesswoman and former politician who was deputy leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from October 2022 to January 2024.
[8] In 2017, she was a housemate on the eighteenth series of Big Brother; entering the house alongside her agency employee Kieran Lee, however competing separately.
[13] Between February 2021[14] and October 2022, she wrote for the Burnley Express; she left after being appointed deputy leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), and used her final column to note that she had joined "around 2.5 years ago" after her "former boss wanted to stand as an MP", and after she researched parties for him and found that UKIP's views reflected her own.
[15] In June 2023, it was announced that she would be standing as a candidate in the 2023 Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election, following the resignation of Boris Johnson.
An article about UKIP published that month in The New European described Jane as a "far more proactive presence in the leadership" than its leader Neil Hamilton, that she "juggle[d] mental health work with GB News appearances", and that her "focus ha[d] been on attempts to unite the parties to the right of the Conservatives, which she refers to as "centre-right" or "splinter parties".