Peter Hulme-Cross is a British politician who was a Member of the

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(AM) for Londonwide from 2004 to 2008. He was also a member of the

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Career

He was one of the

United Kingdom Independence Party The UK Independence Party (UKIP, ) is a Eurosceptic, right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. The party reached its greatest level of success in the mid-2010s, when it gained two Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), member ...

's first two members of the

, having been elected to that body in the 2004 Assembly elections on the UKIP party list. On 31 January 2005 it was announced that he was defecting to the breakaway

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, along with fellow UKIP Assembly member

Damian Hockney Nicholas Richard Alexander Damian Hockney is a British former politician who was the leader of the One London party from 2005 to 2008. He was a Member of the London Assembly (AM) for Londonwide, and was also a member of the Metropolitan Police ...

, although Hulme-Cross did not leave UKIP. Later that year, following a disappointing showing for Veritas in the 2005 General Election, Hockney and Hulme-Cross renamed their group on the London Assembly "Veritas-UKIP". However, UKIP complained that this had been done without their consent and refused to renew Hulme-Cross's membership. Hulme-Cross and Hockney founded the One London Party on 1 September 2005 and renamed the London Assembly group ''One London''. In November 2005 he was rapporteur on the London Assembly Transport Committee report into the

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entitled "Where to, Guv?" In October 2006 he was rapporteur on the London Assembly Environment Committee report into the provision of allotments in London entitled "A Lot to Lose - London's disappearing allotments". He subsequently launched an official GLA website detailing all allotment provision in London.
/ref> In March 2008 he was rapporteur on the London Assembly Transport Committee report into Private Hire, rogue minicabs entitled "Tackling taxi touting in London". He and Hockney failed to keep their seats in the May 2008 elections. Hulme-Cross has been a longstanding member of the

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References

External links

One London Party website One London blog London Assembly biog
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hulme-Cross, Peter Living people UK Independence Party Members of the London Assembly One London members of the London Assembly Veritas (political party) members of the London Assembly Year of birth missing (living people) London AMs 2004–2008