UKIP candidate for the Sedgefield

Sedgefield
The UKIP candidate for the Sedgefield by-election is businessman Toby Horton who lives near Northallerton in North Yorkshire.

Mr Horton, who contested Sedgefield against Tony Blair in 1983 as a Conservative, was for three years the chairman of William Hague's constituency.

He joined UKIP last year claiming that he had not left the Conservative Party but that it had left him.

"In 1983", said Mr Horton, "I fought against Tony Blair as a pro-European as at the time he was a strong Euro-sceptic."

Mr Horton is a former MD of Radio Tees in Stockton and then was involved in the setting up of other radio stations in York, Huddersfield,Scarborough and Sunderland.

Today he is a director of television and audio production company and a magazine company.

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