Bill Etheridge

William Milroy Etheridge is an English politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the West Midlands region. He was elected in 2014 as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate, but left the party in October 2018. He briefly joined the Thurrock Independents before joining the Libertarian Party and serving as its deputy chairman. In 2019, he left the Libertarian Party and joined the Brexit Party, before rejoining UKIP in September 2020. He stood unsuccessfully for UKIP leader in 2016 and 2024.