The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has confirmed Neil Hamilton as its next leader.
Former Conservative minister Mr Hamilton, who served as MP for Tatton in Cheshire between 1983 and 1997, had been the interim leader of UKIP since last year.
It came after the former leader Freddy Vachha was suspended.
The party split in 2019 when former leader Nigel Farage formed the Brexit Party – since renamed Reform UK – taking many of its former members and supporters with him.
Prior to joining Ukip in 2011, Mr Hamilton was best-known as a central figure in the cash-for-questions scandal which engulfed Sir John Major’s Tory government in the 1990s.
He represented Ukip in the Welsh Senedd for five years until losing his seat in elections earlier this year.
In the 2021 local elections UKIP lost all of the seats it was defending from previous elections.
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