Former Reserve Soldier Elected As UKIP Leader

A former reserve the British Army has been elected as the leader of UKIP in a shock election result.

Henry Bolton, who served in the Territorial Army for ten years, will be the party’s fourth leader in just over a year.

During his time in the TA, Bolton undertook the following roles: 

- Allied Military Intelligence area commander, Bosnia

- Infantry Company Commander

- Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol Instructor

- Reconnaissance Platoon Commander

- Joint Services Expedition Leader

- Joint Operations Planner

- Combined Arms Tactics course graduate (Combat Team Command)

- French Commando

- Jungle Warfare

- Chieftain tank crewman

The newly-elected party leader beat the election’s two front runners, anti-Islam campaigner Anne Marie Waters and London Assembly member Peter Whittle.

However Mr Bolton, who stood as UKIP’s police and Crime commissioner in Kent in 2016, was backed by former party leader Nigel Farage.

More on this story to come.