The 2019 European Parliament election later that month resulted in UKIP losing all of its seats, with most of its voting base switching directly to Nigel Farage's recently formed Brexit Party, which won the election. On 24 May 2019, Mike Hookem resigned as UKIP deputy leader and announced his candidacy in the upcoming UKIP leadership election, criticising Batten's leadership, saying: "Mr Batten's policy direction and associations have given the mainstream media the ammunition to label our party 'extreme' and 'far-right', accusations I do not believe to be true". Batten's extended term as UKIP leader ended on 2 June 2019, triggering a leadership election. On 27 June 2019, the closing date for nominations, Batten announced that he was standing for re-election to the party's leadership, but on 7 July 2019, UKIP's National Executive Committee passed a motion prohibiting him from doing so on the grounds that 'he had brought the party into disrepute' during his previous tenure in the position. Electoral history Batten was the official UKIP candidate standing against Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May in the Maidenhead constituency at the 2017 general election. Out of thirteen candidates, he finished in fifth place with 871 votes, and a 1.5% share of the vote. In the 2015 general election he stood in Romford, coming second with 22.8% of the vote. Publications The Inglorious Revolution: The Subversion of the English Constitution and the Path to Freedom (2013) The Road to Freedom: How Britain Can Escape the E.U. (2014) Henry VIII, Tudor Serial Killer: His Victims and Their Stories (2014) References Notes External links Islamic fundamentalism is incompatible with freedom and Western liberal democracy, by Gerard Batten, Freedom Today, November/December 2006 1954 births Living people UK Independence Party parliamentary candidates British Telecom people UK Independence Party MEPs Leaders of the UK Independence Party MEPs for England 2004–2009 MEPs for England 2009–2014 MEPs for England 2014–2019 Counter-jihad activists British critics of Islam British Eurosceptics