James Bruce Carver was born on 15 August 1969 and is a British politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands region between 2014 and 2019.
15 Facts About James Carver
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James Carver was elected in 2014 for the UK Independence Party, second on the list for the region, being elected together with Jill Seymour and Bill Etheridge.
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James Carver subsequently went into remission, but died very quickly from secondary cancer, two months after his 17th birthday in 1986.
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Previously a Labour voter, James Carver joined UKIP in 1996 and stood in four general elections for UKIP: Orpington in 1997, Cheltenham in 2001, Preseli Pembrokeshire in 2005, and Stourbridge in 2015.
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James Carver was sixth on the party list for London in the 1999 European election.
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James Carver is of Romanichal descent on his grandmother's side, giving rise to his interest in fostering better relationships with traveller communities.
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James Carver believes that he is the only British Parliamentarian from a Romany background.
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James Carver has helped raise both money and awareness for the charity Scleroderma and Raynauds UK Society following the death of his first wife from scleroderma in 2009.
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James Carver said that "no one has the right to dictate what people should wear", and that the policy undermined his ability to represent British Muslims in his constituency.
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On 28 May 2018, after 22 years membership, James Carver resigned from UKIP in frustration at what he perceived as a lurch to the right.
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James Carver resigned from UKIP and then sat as an independent MEP until the end of the Eighth European Parliament, stating that he had become "out of kilter" with the party.
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James Carver was first elected to the European Parliament in 2014.
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James Carver serves on the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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James Carver was critical of EU's policy in Israel, claiming that its actions did not comply with the founding treaties of the EU.
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On 28 May 2018, James Carver resigned from UKIP to sit as an independent MEP.