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Gareth Bennett was born on 1 December, 1968 in Cardiff, Wales, is a British politician. Discover Gareth Bennett's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 55 years old?

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Age 55 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 1 December, 1968
Birthday 1 December
Birthplace Cardiff, Wales
Nationality Wales

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1968

Gareth John Bennett MS (born 1 December 1968) is a Welsh politician who served as the Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in the Senedd from 2018 to 2019, and was a Member of the Senedd (MS) for South Wales Central from 2016 to 2021.

Bennett was born in Cardiff on 1 December 1968.

He was educated at Llandaff City Primary School and Radyr Comprehensive School.

He studied sociology at Middlesex Polytechnic but left halfway through the course, returning to Cardiff to study journalism at the Cardiff Institute of Higher Education, which lead to a post with the Carmarthen Journal.

2014

Bennett joined UKIP in 2014.

He campaigned in the 2014 European election, and was agent for UKIP candidate Brian Morris in Cardiff West at the 2015 general election.

When Bennett was selected to contest the South Wales Central electoral region, he was criticised for blaming rubbish problems in Cardiff on students and Eastern European immigrants and was nicknamed the 'Donald Trump of Wales'.

This led to senior UKIP figures including leader Nigel Farage and immigration spokesman Steven Woolfe publicly distancing themselves from Bennett.

A petition containing the names of 16 other UKIP Assembly candidates opposing Bennett's candidacy was presented to the party's National Executive Committee, which upheld his candidacy.

2016

He was elected to National Assembly for Wales as member for South Wales Central in 2016.

In the UKIP Assembly group, Bennett backed Neil Hamilton for leader over Nathan Gill.

After Hamilton became leader of the group, Bennett was appointed as UKIP Assembly spokesman for Local Government, Housing and Sport.

2017

In April 2017, Bennett was appointed as UKIP's Business Manager in the Assembly.

In the same month, the Assembly's Equalities Committee, of which Bennett was a member, published a report about refugees.

Bennett brought out his own report, in which he complained that the proposals would encourage more refugees to come to Wales.

In December 2017, Bennett was banned from speaking in the Chamber of the Welsh Assembly for a year by Presiding Officer Elin Jones.

The ban came after Bennett claimed that making the process to change legal gender easier would lead society to implode.

Bennett refused to apologise or withdraw his remarks, and was barred.

2018

On 10 August 2018 he was elected the leader of UKIP in the Senedd.

In January 2018, Bennett made a partial apology in which he stated that he would accept the authority of the Presiding Officer, and he was allowed to resume his speaking duties without withdrawing his previous remarks.

In February 2018, Bennett led UKIP's opposition to plans to expand the Welsh Assembly's membership.

Bennett claimed almost £10,000 in expenses to set up an office which never opened.

In July 2018, it was announced that there would be a ballot of UKIP party members in Wales to decide the position of UKIP Leader in Wales.

The three candidates who announced that they were running for the post were former Assembly Group Leader Neil Hamilton, who had just been ousted from the role; Caroline Jones, who had ousted him; and Gareth Bennett.

Bennett's main policy planks included his campaign to abolish the Welsh Assembly, and his opposition to the Welsh Government's Welsh language policies.

He won the UKIP Wales leadership election in August 2018, with 269 votes.

In August 2018, Bennett was criticised by First Minister Carwyn Jones and other Assembly members for supporting Boris Johnson's remarks about the Muslim veil.

2019

On 7 November 2019, he quit UKIP to become an independent.

On 3 June 2019, Bennett announced that he would be running in the 2019 UK Independence Party leadership election after Gerard Batten stood down as leader.

Bennett has claimed that he would take UKIP forward with 'bold policy ideas', after Gerard Batten's one-year term came to an end.

Bennett published his 2019 UKIP Leadership Election Manifesto on his website, which includes policies such as 'National ID Cards' ,'UKIP Party Democracy', 'National Volunteer Force', 'Regular Referenda', 'Freedom of Speech', 'Regulating Mosques', 'Scrap Foreign Aid' and 'Abolishing Politicians'.

On 11 July, Bennett announced that he would withdraw his leadership bid in order to promote Ben Walker's campaign.

On 7 November 2019, he quit UKIP to become an independent politician, claiming that his former party was "trying to sabotage Brexit".

Bennett also announced that he would be supporting the Withdrawal Agreement agreed by the then Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.

2020

On 24 June 2020, he joined Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party.

In April 2021, Bennett decided to stand as an independent candidate in the Senedd election of that year, unsuccessfully contesting the Cynon Valley constituency.

In June 2020, Bennett joined the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party, becoming the party's first Senedd member; fellow MS Mark Reckless would also join the party in October that same year.

Ahead of the 2021 Senedd election, Bennett announced that he would stand as an independent candidate in Cynon Valley, rather than for Abolish the Welsh Assembly.

A party spokesperson said that Bennett's decision was by mutual agreement by both him and the party.

In the election, Bennett polled 278 votes (1.4%), coming last out of all candidates.