Suzanne Elizabeth Evans was born on February 1965 and is an English journalist and politician, formerly associated with the UK Independence Party.
24 Facts About Suzanne Evans
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Suzanne Evans resigned the Conservative whip on 15 May 2013, and then became a councillor with UKIP from 29 May 2013 to 22 May 2014.
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Suzanne Evans was suspended from the party between March and September 2016, and was unable to run in its September 2016 leadership election before being re-appointed to the post of Deputy Chairman by Paul Nuttall.
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Suzanne Evans was one of the three candidates in the party's November 2016 leadership election.
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Suzanne Evans was a spokeswoman for the party and the co-author of its election manifesto in 2015 and 2017.
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Suzanne Evans resigned from the party in December 2018, over the appointment of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon as an advisor to party leader Gerard Batten.
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Suzanne Evans stood as the UKIP candidate in the Shrewsbury and Atcham constituency in the 2015 general election.
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Suzanne Evans's father ran a watchmaking firm in Roushill in Shrewsbury, and her mother was a teacher.
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Suzanne Evans was educated at Baschurch Secondary Modern School, a state school in the village of Baschurch in Shropshire, now known as the Corbet School, and then at Shrewsbury Sixth Form College.
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Suzanne Evans attended Lancaster University, from which she graduated with a BA in Religious Studies.
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Suzanne Evans trained as a journalist with the BBC and worked for BBC Radio in various roles from 1987 to 1999.
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Suzanne Evans worked for BBC Radio 5, for the BBC World Service, and in several roles on BBC Local Radio.
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Suzanne Evans was communications director at Aquarius PR from March 2006 to May 2013.
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Suzanne Evans began her political career as a member of Merton London Borough Council, elected in May 2010.
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Suzanne Evans was elected as a Conservative councillor but resigned from the party in May 2013, citing a "poisonous war" within the party.
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Suzanne Evans switched her allegiance to the UK Independence Party, but lost her seat a year later.
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Suzanne Evans soon became UKIP's deputy chairwoman and head of policy, serving between July 2014 and February 2016.
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Suzanne Evans was primarily responsible for writing the UKIP 2015 manifesto, having taken over the job from Tim Aker.
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Suzanne Evans was obliged to deny that any such bid was contemplated.
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In 2014, Suzanne Evans blamed poor UKIP support in London on the city's high number of "educated, cultured and young".
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Suzanne Evans explained that she thought that in London, voters were "more likely, I think, to have read some of the negative press that's been about us, and I think they'd be more likely to believe it" whereas outside London people were more cynical about media reporting.
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On 23 March 2016, while still on the UKIP party list for the 2016 London Assembly election, Suzanne Evans was suspended for six months from the party by UKIP's internal disciplinary committee.
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Suzanne Evans launched her bid to become leader of UKIP in October 2016, following the resignation of Diane James after 18 days in the job.
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Suzanne Evans founded the Lipoedema UK charity in 2011, after discovering that she suffers from the condition.