He came third behind the Labour and Conservative candidates with 2,023 votes (8.6%).[54]. Neil and Christine may feel that by "mining the rich seam of popular culture', as Neil calls it, they are winning. [38] Hamilton was demoted from his role as campaign director in April 2014. Hamilton became widely associated with sleaze,[2] and was forced to resign his ministerial role. Christine Hamilton's age is 73. He left the Club in 1973, and stood as chairman of the Federation of Conservative Students against David Davis, but lost. October 2002: Christine Hamilton appears on Have I got News for You and taunts host, Angus Deayton, over his private life. [132] The trading name of Vixen Consultants is Christine Hamilton.[133]. She told the inquiry that, in May 1988, Hamilton had been unmoved by a set of photographs that depicted smoking-related cancers; that is, harm to young people which might be caused by a product (tobacco) that he promoted. English author and media personality who has appeared on television shows such as GMTV. [46] Nathan Gill subsequently left the UKIP group in the assembly to sit as an independent,[47] resulting in Neil Hamilton becoming UKIP's Leader in Wales in September 2016. bobalmighty. The UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, criticised the move as an "unjust act of deep ingratitude". Derek Laud was an ex-Monday Club activist and protg of Hamilton's friend Michael Brown, who offered Hamilton a fee of 8,000 per year. Funds for the action were donated by Lord Harris of High Cross, the Earl of Portsmouth and Taki, who raised 50,000. The Guardian reported that "The spotlight had swivelled to Phil Pedley, the Tory defendant who remained adamant he would fight on alone, backed by independent funds and, he claims, a wide range of Conservative supporters. [31] Disquiet in the local association became public, but the majority gave him the benefit of the doubt. "[52], In April 2018, Hamilton said that "the idea that Enoch Powell was some kind of uniquely racist villain is absolute nonsense". (Not that self-justification would ever have been much of a problem for him where cash was involved.) Their appearance with Louis. David Thomas, Raymond Hughes and Michael Cassall, "MP urges resignations at BBC after libel settlement". The product was believed to cause serious risk of oral cancer, particularly for minors, and the government was inclined to ban its import. [30], Prior to the 1997 general election, Hamilton determined to try to retain his parliamentary seat. Hamilton joined Ian Greer, a parliamentary lobbyist, as a co-plaintiff. As a further taunt, at the end of the show, the Hamiltons were handed their "fee" in brown envelopes. This event was recorded on film by Louis Theroux, who, at that time, was spending time with the Hamiltons for an episode of his documentary series When Louis Met.[111], In June 2003, Nadine Milroy-Sloan, the woman responsible for the unfounded accusation, was sentenced to three years in jail for perverting the course of justice. I await a transcript of the second tape."[87]. The 1997 General Election edited by D. T. Denver, p. 83. They each paid 7,500 towards the paper's legal costs. Hamilton claimed innocence but was forced to resign five days later, on 25 October 1994. [88] Hamilton's admission had the effect of reaffirming the testimony of the two witnesses who alleged he had given a Nazi salute in Berlin and exposing those witnesses who had reversed their position. The former Conservative minister is the same grasping, boastful, smug, vulgar, deluded, obfuscating, mendacious oaf he always was. [58] He was also top of the UKIP list for that region but was not appointed as an additional member either. August 2001: The Hamiltons are arrested after an allegation of sexual abuse is made by Nadine Milroy-Sloan, who took her claims to the publicist Max Clifford. Max Clifford, the bumptious tabloid publicist, took up her cause, offering - as is his wont - to organise media coverage of her sordid and intriguing story. Hamilton said he had coloured himself black in 1982 to look like Idi Amin and dressed as Canon James Owen on a boat on the River Cam. 2 February 2005: Max Clifford settles a libel action brought by the Hamiltons over comments he made during the fake sex allegations case brought by Milroy Sloan. [51], Hamilton caused further controversy during a debate on the effects of Brexit in Wales. [127] To Jeremy Corbyn, he suggested that "some of [his] IRA friends could be used to get rid of pensioners by shooting them"also in 1987. [40], In the elections for the National Assembly for Wales on 5 May 2016, he was elected as a Member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Mid and West Wales Region, one of seven UKIP candidates to win a seat through the Regional List system. A BBC internal memorandum to the Board of Management claimed some 17 witnesses had been intimidated into changing their testimony. Edwina Currie, a former health minister, gave evidence. Christine Hamilton and Neil Hamilton during "I Love Soho" Campaign Launch Party at Too2Much in London, Great Britain. She's alive! The Hamiltons flew first class, naturally, and BA took care of all the bills, which is how they like to travel.Towards the end of their stay, they asked if they could come back via Hong Kong; the airline was happy to agree. [101] He claimed that Hamilton had demanded and had accepted cash payments of up to 110,000,[102] Harrods' gift vouchers and a free holiday at the Htel Ritz Paris in 1987, in return for asking questions in Parliament on behalf of Harrods. Now the disgraced former MP is fighting for a seat in the Welsh assembly - and his wife is alongside.. The Hamiltons flew first class, naturally, and BA took care of all the . SUMMARIZING THE EVIDENCE Continued 7. It wasn't as if we came back from The Ritz and said, Gosh, no one must know about this. Christine fronted her own BBC Choice chat show, interviewing other notorious curiosities from James Hewitt to Jonathan Aitken, and naturally giving them a silky soft ride. Find E Notify stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. [27], Denmark rejected the Maastricht Treaty on 2 June 1992. [19], In 1985, he began working for Ian Greer Associates, lobbying on behalf of US Tobacco. Alan Rusbridger, editor of The Guardian, said: "The decision by Neil Hamilton and Ian Greer must be one of the most astonishing legal cave-ins in the history of the law of libel" and called for the issues to be examined by Sir Gordon Downey, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, and the Inland Revenue. Hamilton urged his colleagues not to resign over the Treaty and other issues. Reports suggest that it is pounds 100,000, though the Hamiltons declare that to be "a wild underestimate". Neil Hamilton became embroiled in the Cash-for-questions affair, and the former BBC broadcaster Martin Bell stood against him for the Tatton seat at the 1997 general election. -. I dont Christine thats why lots of people dont like my humour so I . The Guardian published a headline branding him "A Liar and a Cheat". [121], Since then, the Hamiltons have appeared in pantomimes, television chat shows, and programmes such as The Weakest Link, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? [59] Meanwhile the party lost all its other Senedd seats. [30] Their accuser, Nadine Milroy-Sloan, was charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, and in 2002 sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for making the false accusations.[31][32][33][34]. In a phone conversation, Hamilton gave an absolute assurance to Heseltine that there was no such relationship, but he had received two payments from Greer in 1988 and 1989, totalling 10,000. August 2001: The Hamiltons are arrested after an allegation of sexual abuse is made by Nadine Milroy-Sloan, who took her claims to the publicist Max Clifford. Simon Freeman and Henry Porter, "BBC to settle Tory libel case". Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. While Hamilton did not deny the holiday, he continued to maintain that he was innocent of improper conduct. If there is any national award going for the most ludricous couple in Britain Neil and Christine Hamilton deserve to win it after their performance last night. They are filled with contempt for a man who can make these sort of accusations of a criminal offence against a member of staff, who, Mr Campbell-Savours knows damn well, is not guilty of it."[80]. Other MPs active in the No Turning Back Group included Michael Portillo, Peter Lilley, Alan Duncan and Gerald Howarth. He grew up in Ammanford in Carmarthenshire and joined the Conservative Party in 1964, at the age of 15. Neil Hamilton elected leader of Ukip group . The Financial Times reported, "A solicitor for Mr Hamilton and Mr Howarth said later that their linked libel action against Mr Philip Pedley would continue. The eventual winner would become the UKIP Assembly Group Leader and ultimately the party's main spokesperson for Wales. Ludowici, president of the NRMA, as they firstly watch the name appear on the computer,. I have to inform you, Mr. Speaker, that it is but one of two tapes. When they went to the police to give their statements they were accompanied by a television crew from the BBC whose offbeat documentary-maker Louis Theroux is filming them. The unconventional defence is hardly surprising for a couple who, ever since the former cabinet minister resigned from government in 1994, have been involved in a fight for political survival, endless legal battles and all manner of media roles. What could be wrong with that? Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. David Hencke, "MP drops Young Tory libel action". [112] In February 2005, the publicist Max Clifford, who had acted for Milroy-Sloan, settled, paying Hamilton an undisclosed sum. [94] On 1 October 1996, Hamilton appeared on the evening television program, Newsnight, and engaged in a live debate with Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian.[95]. That is why al-Fayed decided to destroy him.There is a lot of competition, but throughout a chequered career, Neil Hamilton has always managed to be his own worst enemy. Devon and Lily Have a Public Yelling Match and Victoria Asks Nate to Sabotage [Spoiler] Thursday, March 2, 2023: Today on The Young and the Restless Audra stirs the pot, Tucker reports back to Ashley, and Nate lets Victoria down easy. 20 years of Sacha Baron Cohen: all of his best political interviews . and "What was unparliamentary about the remark?" In 1994, The Guardian alleged that Hamilton had taken cash payments in exchange for asking questions in Parliament. [17] The Western Goals Institute achieved notoriety by inviting Jean-Marie Le Pen (leader of the French National Front) and Alessandra Mussolini (Benito Mussolini's granddaughter, a Deputy sitting for the Italian neo-fascist MSI) to address fringe meetings at the 1992 Conservative Party conference. I hope this will now cease, together with set-ups and the surveillance and harassment of other witnesses; in my case by private security companies."[91]. Just before they went to the police on the latest allegations they were at the funeral of Lord Longford at Westminster Cathedral.All through these times, Christine Hamilton has stood by her man, even hosting a television chat show, talking to celebrities about adversity in their lives and compiling a Bumper Book of British Battle Axes.She is well versed in politics. They said that extracting an apology from Pedley was not "worth the bother". speaking and writing". May 1997: Hamilton loses his parliamentary seat to BBC journalist Martin Bell in the wake of ``Cash for Questions'' sleaze allegations. It was upheld first by the British public in 1997, who booted Hamilton out of his Tatton constituency despite his protestations of innocence, in favour of the white-suited broadcaster Martin Bell. In October 2021, Hamilton was elected UKIP leader.[3]. [9] Neil Hamilton's later failure in a libel case against the Egyptian businessman, Mohamed Al-Fayed,[10][11] would lead to her husband's bankruptcy. she boomed in a confrontation later dubbed the Battle of Knutsford Heath. Hamilton was born in Fleur-de-Lis, a Gwent pit village near Blackwood, Wales. [1] Neil Hamilton's application to become a European Parliamentary candidate for UKIP was rejected in 2013, though he had been elected to UKIP's National Executive Committee in 2011. [39] In the May 2014 local elections, he stood as a UKIP candidate in the St Mary's Park ward of Wandsworth London Borough Council and finished 8th of the 9 candidates with 396 votes. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton from 1983 to 1997 and a UKIP Member of the Senedd (MS) for Mid and West Wales from 2016 to 2021. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [28], Along with her husband, she was arrested in May 2001 by police investigating an alleged rape that was found to be false. She is famous for being a Autobiographer. [117] At one point Hamilton quipped: "I've found it's much better making political jokes than being one. Smith admitted his guilt and resigned immediately. The following year, he opposed the plan for Britain to join the European Communities. On 16 January 1997, Al-Fayed appeared in an edition of the Dispatches documentary series on Channel 4. Just days after their court defeat by al-Fayed, they appeared on the BBC's Have I Got News For You?, the satirical quiz show.During the programme the couple were handed brown envelopes in a mimic of the brown envelopes Neil Hamilton was supposed to have accepted from al-Fayed.Neil Hamilton was born on March 9, 1949, into a Welsh mining family. Christine Hamilton was born on 10 November 1949 in England, UK. [6], Hamilton spent many years working as secretary to various Conservative MPs, first Wilfred Proudfoot MP for Brighouse and Spenborough, then Gerald Nabarro, MP for South Worcestershire. If he had been given a brown envelope, he would immediately have carved himself out a thick wad of dosh and shoved it in his wallet. When Neil Hamilton was made a minister at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), al-Fayed was delighted. He now had a friend in a crucial ministry, and brown envelopes or not, there had been a lavish week at the Ritz to build up a debt of gratitude.Al-Fayed promptly wrote to congratulate Neil Hamilton on his appointment, but the reply came as a rude shock. [17] Hamilton appeared on Have I Got News for You in 2002 and taunted presenter Angus Deayton over recent tabloid revelations about his personal life. Hamilton had given a categorical denial he had made a Nazi salute in Berlin to John Selwyn Gummer, the Party Chairman, in January 1984: But, writing in the Sunday Times, Hamilton admitted making "a little salute" in the Reichstag. All we ask is to be judged by the standards of the time. [93] When Eluned Morgan claimed that the economic consequences of Brexit would be hardest for those who could least afford it, Hamilton remarked that "suicide's an option". He was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Corporate Affairs by Prime Minister John Major in 1992. [68] He said he would have twenty character witnesses: "My main character witness was going to be Norman St John Stevas. He subsequently lost a libel case on the matter. Campbell-Savours claimed this was proof of BBC nobbling and announced that he was sending his evidence to Sir Michael Havers, the Attorney General. [126], Hamilton's comments are frequently controversial. What's the difference between cardiac arrest and a heart attack? Hamilton said that Powell "changed politics by articulating the fears and resentments of millions and millions of people who are being ignored by the establishment". The Observer commissioned ICM polls in the constituencies of the three Conservative candidates tainted by scandal and seeking re-election: Hamilton, Allan Stewart and Piers Merchant. in the first of many signings by the producers that prove you don't have to be celebrated to attract the culture's most captivating misnomer. The British public would long have forgotten Hamilton, along with his penchant for getting something for nothing, however sleazily, if it were not for the unfortunate fact that such a flair is very much in tune with the temper of the times. [73] A BBC source stated: "Nearly all the defence witnesses have had a quiet word in their ears. It claimed the money was paid to the men by Mohamed Al-Fayed, the owner of Harrods. Nikki: Oh, my God! Hamilton was the only MS not to live in Wales. The programme also made the claim that Hamilton gave a Nazi salute in Berlin while "messing around" on a parliamentary visit in August 1983. Mon 9 May 2016 09.04 EDT Last modified on Fri 7 Oct 2016 05.14 EDT. Part of the problem is that neither Neil nor Christine appear to show the smallest understanding of what a seismic blow they dealt to the nation's relationship with its political leaders. Pedley made a statement from the steps to say he stood by his words in the Panorama programme and restated he had never said the MPs were Nazis, rather their behaviour was part of a pattern that would harm the Party and in the case of Hamilton's Berlin behaviour, the Final YC Report accused Hamilton of "batty eccentricity". Christine Hamilton and Neil Hamilton attend The 20th BRIT Awards with Mastercard, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, UK, Friday 03 March 2000. Neil Hamilton: You have, and I think we need to have something to eat. [96] Hamilton argued the pictures were irrelevant. [115] After Clifford died in prison in December 2017, he was described by Hamilton as a "monster". Neil Hamilton hasn't changed, unfortunately, not one bit. The money, so far as the grasping couple are concerned, couldn't have come at a better time. [12] In April 2001, Hamilton said, "If I am bankrupt [which he was the following month],[13] I won't be able to return to the bar but even if I was able to do so, I couldn't contain myself from saying what I thought to some of the judges. [124], Hamilton argued for the individual's right to smoke. Neil Hamilton eventually reached the post of Minister for Corporate Affairs between 1992 and 1994 in Prime Minister John Major's government. Hamilton came third in the first series of the reality television programme, I'm a CelebrityGet Me Out of Here! Can you open your eyes, please? British politician from Wales, UKIP leader, Student activity and early political career, Dropping of libel action against the Young Conservatives. Hamilton was told by the Chief Whip to stay neutral, but says he ignored this instruction. Neil Hamilton's strategy is simply to deny everything. In the Hamilton/Fayed/brown envelopes case, the MO would appear to be characteristic of both parties. He was on their parliamentary advisory board. . The same vanity that would have led him to trouser the brown envelopes as no more than his due would also have led him to boast about them. The Independent wrote: "Sir Gordon, contrary to Hamilton's confident expectations, had no compunction about concluding that he did indeed take cash in brown envelopes" and called on the new party leader to "expel the miscreants".
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