1. Alexander Alan Craig is a British politician and community worker who previously served as leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance from 2004 to 2012.
14 Facts About Alan Craig
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Alan Craig stood as a candidate for Mayor of London in 2008 and was a councillor in Newham for eight years.
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Alan Craig defected to the UK Independence Party in 2014, where he served as UKIP's spokesperson for families and children from 2018 to around 2019.
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Alan Craig was elected to Newham Council for Canning Town South in the 2002 local elections, becoming the only non-Labour councillor.
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Alan Craig opposed the opening of one of the regional casinos in Newham, campaigned to end the DESO-funded arms fair and played a leading role in the campaign to save the Queens Road Market.
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Alan Craig lost his council seat in 2010, when he unsuccessfully ran to be mayor of Newham a third time.
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Alan Craig became leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance in 2004 and led the party in the 2005 general election and the 2010 general election, in which the party won no seats.
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In 2013 Alan Craig became the spokesperson for a campaign group against same-sex marriage called "Gay Marriage No Thanks", and compared same-sex marriage to child abuse.
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In October 2014, Alan Craig joined the UK Independence Party.
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Alan Craig was due to speak at an event advocating conversion therapy organised by the Core Issues Trust in April 2015.
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Alan Craig was selected to be UKIP's candidate for the South West constituency in the 2016 London Assembly election.
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Alan Craig proposed that far-right activist Tommy Robinson should be allowed to join the party.
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Alan Craig was criticised by groups including Quilliam for claiming that Muslim grooming gangs were orchestrating a "Holocaust of our children".
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Alan Craig stood for UKIP in the Canning Town North ward in the 2018 local elections in Newham and was the last-placed candidate on UKIP's list for the North West England constituency in the 2019 European Parliament election.