• 7 defected

    70

  • 3 arrested while in office

    30

  • 7 suspended or resigned

    70

  • 2 convicted and jailed

    20

  • 2004-2009 Parliament

  • 3/12
    unsavoury ends

  • Tom Wise

    Stole £36,000 from Parliament and spent it on cars and wine. Jailed by Southwark Crown Court in November 2009.

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  • Ashley Mote

    Stole £65,506 in illegally obtained benefits, and nearly £500,000 in fraudulent expenses. Jailed in 2007 and again in 2015.

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  • Robert Kilroy-Silk

    Quit UKIP in 2005 after MEPs discussed expelling him. Later set up his own party, but resigned from that too.

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  • 2009-2014 Parliament

  • 5/13
    unsavoury ends

  • Nikki Sinclaire

    Expelled by UKIP in 2009 after complaining about extremism in the party’s Parliamentary group. Later arrested for fraud and money-laundering.

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  • Mike Nattrass

    Deselected by UKIP and quit in 2013, complaining of totalitarian leadership within the party.

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  • Godfrey Bloom

    Eventually suspended and then quit as UKIP MEP in 2013 after a recording emerged of him calling female conference delegates “sluts”.

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  • Marta Andreasen

    Defected to the Tories in 2013, citing Nigel Farage’s “anti-women” and “Stalinist” tendencies.

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  • David Campbell Bannerman

    Defected to the Tories in 2011, reporting that UKIP was “beset by internal fighting”.

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  • 2014-2019 Parliament

  • 7/24
    unsavoury ends
    and one year to go!

  • Amjad Bashir

    Defected to the Tories in 2015. UKIP claimed it had already suspended him over financial irregularities.

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  • Janice Atkinson

    Defected to the far-right parliamentary grouping led by Marine LePen following an expenses fraud investigation.

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  • Steven Woolfe

    Flirted with defection to the Tories after failing in a leadership bid. Was allegedly punched by a fellow UKIP MEP, and quit the party shortly after.

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  • Roger Helmer

    Resigned from Parliament amid investigation into misuse of some £100,000 of parliamentary funds.

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  • Diane James

    Quit in an “act of irrational selfishness”, according to Farage, after her short-lived leadership.

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  • Jonathan Arnott

    Resigned because of the party’s “unpleasant nature” and its “sewer of party politics”.

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  • James Carver

    Resigned because “experience has helped me appreciate how personal happiness and well-being can only be attained by staying true to one’s beliefs”.

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