1. Nicole Sinclaire was born on 26 July 1968 and is a British former politician who was leader of the We Demand a Referendum Party, and served as a Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands from 2009 to 2014.
42 Facts About Nikki Sinclaire
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Nikki Sinclaire was elected MEP in June 2009, as a UK Independence Party candidate but later resigned from the Europe of Freedom and Democracy group in which UKIP sat as a part in the European Parliament, citing the alleged extreme right-wing views of some of the group's members, including outspoken views condemning homosexuals and migrants.
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Subsequently, Nikki Sinclaire sat as an Independent MEP from January 2010 until September 2012, during which time she set up the We Demand a Referendum party.
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Nikki Sinclaire was born in London and educated at the University of Kent at Canterbury, read for a Bachelor of Laws degree.
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Nikki Sinclaire stood for the UK Parliament twice as a UKIP candidate: in Medway in 2001 and in Halesowen and Rowley Regis in 2005.
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Nikki Sinclaire was arrested after refusing to leave a public debate, "Queer Question Time" but was released without charge a few hours later.
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In October 2008, it was reported that Nikki Sinclaire briefly met Baroness Thatcher at a Bruges Group dinner.
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Nikki Sinclaire told Thatcher that she would be standing as an MEP candidate for the UK Independence Party in the West Midlands.
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Nikki Sinclaire has campaigned abroad, most notably in the United States, assisting on campaigns for US Representative Susan Davis, a Democrat, and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican.
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On 11 September 2009, Nikki Sinclaire announced she would stand in the 2009 UKIP leadership election.
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The leadership ballot was won by Lord Pearson of Rannoch, with Nikki Sinclaire coming third with 1,214 votes.
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Nikki Sinclaire was invited, as a guest of the European Jewish Congress, to take part in events at Auschwitz, in January 2010, to mark the 65th anniversary of its liberation, and found herself as the only British Member of the European Parliament attending the event.
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In January 2010, Nikki Sinclaire resigned from the Europe of Freedom and Democracy grouping in the European Parliament, to which UKIP belongs, citing her displeasure at what she claimed to be some of the racist, extremist parties in membership of the EFD Group.
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Nikki Sinclaire cited a deterioration in her relationship with Nigel Farage, the joint leader of the EFD group.
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Nikki Sinclaire was expelled from UKIP for refusing to be part of the EFD group.
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Nikki Sinclaire was the only UK politician to be chosen to fly to Tunisia in early February 2011, as part of an international delegation following the ousting of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
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Nikki Sinclaire launched a campaign for a referendum in July 2010, with the aim of collecting 100,000 signatures calling for a referendum on the UK's continued membership of the European Union.
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Nikki Sinclaire announced that the petition had collected the necessary 100,000 signatures on 9 August 2011.
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Nikki Sinclaire was joined by MEPs Mike Nattrass and Trevor Colman, along with MPs Kate Hoey, Nigel Dodds and Kelvin Hopkins.
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Nikki Sinclaire enrolled onto the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme in October 2009.
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Nikki Sinclaire is a fanatical Liverpool fan and season ticket holder.
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Nikki Sinclaire sponsored and distributed a leaflet in August 2012, for Worcester City Football Club to help promote their final season at their St George's Lane ground.
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Nikki Sinclaire has worked alongside local residents group RAID in protesting against an unauthorised gypsy camp on the Eaves Green Lane site in Meriden, West Midlands.
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Nikki Sinclaire is an active campaigner against the HS2 project which aims to link Birmingham and London by High Speed Rail.
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Nikki Sinclaire has protested to save the Aston Arena, a sport centre based in Aston Birmingham.
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Nikki Sinclaire delivered a petition to 10 Downing Street with a local charity calling for the Government to save the sports centre.
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Nikki Sinclaire led a protest at Birmingham Council house against the demolition of the sports facility.
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Nikki Sinclaire founded the We Demand a Referendum Party in September 2012, with which she planned to contest all British constituencies in the 2014 EU elections.
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Nikki Sinclaire spoke at the We Demand a Referendum inaugural conference on 5 October 2012.
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Nikki Sinclaire campaigned before the United States elections of 2012 in Richmond, Virginia.
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Nikki Sinclaire supported Tim Kaine in his successful bid to become a US Senator representing Virginia.
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Nikki Sinclaire canvassed in support of Barack Obama's re-election to the US Presidency.
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Nikki Sinclaire sponsored the 8th annual Kashmir week in the European Parliament in June 2013.
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Nikki Sinclaire spoke in a press conference supporting the right to self-determination of the Kashmiri people has said that she will continue to bring the Kashmiri issue to the political agenda of the European Union.
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Nikki Sinclaire announced her one-off Edinburgh Fringe Show on 13 August 2013.
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On 22 February 2012, Nikki Sinclaire was arrested along with three other people; two women aged 55 and 39, as well as a 19-year-old man on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud the European Parliament following an inquiry into an allegation made in 2010, concerning allowances and expenses.
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Nikki Sinclaire denied all the charges, cooperated with the police, and while the investigation was in process would only state that it was tied to a disgruntled employee who was themselves the subject of a similar investigation.
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Nikki Sinclaire was assigned male at birth, but felt she was "trapped in the wrong body" from the age of three.
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At 16, Nikki Sinclaire was told by a doctor that these feelings were a "fantasy"; she was told that she could not undergo gender reassignment surgery until the age of 21.
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Nikki Sinclaire took hormone replacement therapy, prior to beginning surgery at the age of 23.
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Nikki Sinclaire publicly spoke about her gender identity in November 2013, making her the first openly transgender Parliamentarian in the UK.
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In 2004, Nikki Sinclaire came out as lesbian in a letter to the LGBTQ newspaper The Pink Paper.