Andrew Robert England Kerr (born 23 September 1958) is a British politician. England Kerr was elected as a
Brexit Party
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Member of the European Parliament
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(MEP) for the
West Midlands
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Etymology
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constituency in the
2019 European parliamentary election. Prior to his political career he was a solicitor who specialised in
property law. On 29 September 2019, he became an independent MEP after his party withdrew the whip.
Early life and legal career
Andrew Robert England Kerr was born on 23 September 1958 in Birmingham.
He qualified as a
solicitor in 1985, specialising in
property law. Kerr founded England Kerr Hands & Co in 1986. He is a director of the company. England Kerr is a director at estate agency, Englands Estate Agents and is a director of England Safety Ltd, producer of specialised equipment for law enforcement and special forces.
He is a former vice-chairman of the Federation of Small Business Defence Committee.
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European Parliament
He voted for Brexit
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in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. England Kerr supports Brexit as he felt that the European Union
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(EU) was corrupt and undemocratic. In previous general elections he had voted for Eurosceptic Labour
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MP Gisela Stuart
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in Birmingham Edgbaston
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.
England Kerr stood as a candidate for the Brexit Party
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in the 2019 European parliamentary election. He was third on his party's list, and was elected as one of its three MEPs in the West Midlands
West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth.
Etymology
The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...
constituency. In the European Parliament
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, England Kerr was a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy The Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) is a committee of the European Parliament. Its areas of responsibility relate to industry, especially technology-intensive manufacturing, information technology, and telecommunications. It also ...
, and was part of the delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan
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, EU-Kyrgyzstan
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, EU-Uzbekistan
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and EU-Tajikistan
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Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and for relations with Turkmenistan
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and Mongolia
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A month after his election, the Brexit Party withdrew the whip from him citing "irreconcilable differences regarding a likely conflict of interest", he therefore sat as an independent MEP from that date. Party leader Nigel Farage specified in a television interview that this was in relation to England Kerr "making comments about a business and a product that he has a direct financial investment in".]
Personal life
England Kerr is married to Sally, who is the company director of the estate agency Englands Estate Agents.
References
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1958 births
Living people
Brexit Party MEPs
MEPs for England 2019–2020
Politicians from Birmingham, West Midlands