17 Facts About Nathan Gill

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Nathan Lee Gill was born on 6 July 1973 and is a British politician, who was the Leader of Reform UK Wales from March to May 2021, when he resigned from the party.

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Nathan Gill previously served as Member of the European Parliament for Wales from 2014 to January 2020.

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Nathan Gill was born in England, but his family moved to Wales in the early 1980s.

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Nathan Gill was educated at Ysgol David Hughes and then Coleg Menai: on leaving the latter he joined a family-owned private company based in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

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Nathan Gill founded and managed Burgill Ltd in March 2004, with his mother Elaine.

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Nathan Gill employed 180 staff, chiefly from central Europe and the Philippines, to which they optionally provided chargeable "bunkhouse"-style accommodation.

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Nathan Gill then moved back to Wales, where he now lives in Llangefni, Isle of Anglesey, with his American wife Jana, and five children.

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Nathan Gill was beaten to the post of leader of the UKIP group in the National Assembly for Wales by former Conservative MP Neil Hamilton.

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Nathan Gill subsequently left the UKIP group in the assembly to sit as an independent, citing much infighting and distractions.

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Nathan Gill remained a member of the party and its leader in Wales, until Neil Hamilton was made Wales leader in September 2016.

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On 6 December 2018, Nathan Gill resigned from UKIP, in opposition to the party leader Gerard Batten's links to far-right activist Tommy Robinson.

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Nathan Gill joined the new Brexit Party in February 2019.

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Nathan Gill was re-elected as an MEP in Wales in the 2019 European Parliament election.

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Nathan Gill was elected alongside fellow Brexit Party candidate, James Wells.

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On 26 March 2021, Nathan Gill was announced as Leader of Reform UK Wales.

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Nathan Gill was a regional list candidate in the 2021 Senedd election for the North Wales electoral region but failed to be elected.

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Cymru revealed that Nathan Gill had met multiple meetings with pro-Russian leaders in Ukraine and Moldova that were organised by men accused of being Kremlin agents.