[citation needed] He was a Coldstream Guardsman and has worked in a factory, in junior management, and as a teacher at primary and secondary level.

[17] He argues that the money given by the UK to the EU is given to other parts of the country at the expense of England, which makes his party Eurosceptic.

[20] This meeting was reportedly organised by the then leader of Britain First, Jim Dowson, and attended by members of the English Defence League.

[21] In 2023, it was reported that activists from Patriotic Alternative, a neo-Nazi party, had canvased for him in the Epping Forest District Council elections.

He reasoned that Theresa May had the authority to begin Britain's two-year withdrawal process from the European Union, but did not have the power to amend it, meaning that the extension granted by Brussels until 31 October 2019 was unlawful.

[23] The case, however, was rejected for a hearing on the grounds of lack of legal merit and cannot lead to a conclusion that the UK left the EU on 29 March 2019,[24] but has been appealed to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.