John_Tennant_(politician)
John Tennant (politician)
British politician
John Tennant (born 25 December 1986) is a British politician, who was a Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North East of England between 2019 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU.[4] Tennant is also the former party leader of Independent Union, of which he is a councillor on Hartlepool Borough Council for the Jesmond ward.[5]
In September 2019, all IU councillors, as well as the one Veterans and People's Party councillor, who made up the coalition at Hartlepool Borough Council defected to the Brexit Party, renaming their already existing coalition with the three Conservative councillors to the "Brexit and Conservative Coalition".[6][7] Despite this, the IU was still registered with the Electoral Commission with Tennant listed as its current leader.[8] Tennant stepped down from the IU leadership in February 2020 and was replaced by Shane Moore.[citation needed]