Freddy Vachha is a British businessman and a retired academic and politician who served as Leader of the UK Independence Party from June to September 2020.
11 Facts About Freddy Vachha
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Freddy Vachha was born in Bombay, India, in December 1957.
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Freddy Vachha then ran his own computer software company Digital Precision Ltd, developing and publishing software for the Sinclair QL and other computers until 1995, and worked as a business consultant.
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Freddy Vachha was a candidate for the 2016 London Assembly election in the North East constituency He stood as a candidate in Old Bexley and Sidcup in the 2017 general election, coming third, again behind the Conservatives' James Brokenshire and Labour.
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Freddy Vachha competed for one of London's seats in the 2019 European Parliament election but was not elected.
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Freddy Vachha took over the party's national campaign for the 2019 general election.
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Freddy Vachha was elected unopposed as leader of UKIP in June 2020, saying that the party "went astray quite a few years ago" and that under his leadership he hoped it would "return to our libertarian freedom-loving principles".
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On 12 September 2020, it was reported that Freddy Vachha had been suspended from the party by the party chairman Ben Walker and that Neil Hamilton had been installed as interim leader.
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Freddy Vachha maintained that he was still the Leader and Walker was no longer the Chairman.
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Freddy Vachha instituted legal action at the High Court that month.
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Freddy Vachha, potentially facing a year's delay on the High Court Chancery List backlogged due to the COVID-19 pandemic, then discontinued the action, stating in a press release of December 1,2020 that long before the case would get heard, the party would be effectively defunct.