Who is douglas carswell

After a visit to Afghanistan with the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme in , Mr Carswell loudly criticised the poor equipment and lack of helicopters for British troops.

He was booted out as a result of his concerns. The year before the expenses scandal Mr Carswell tabled an early day motion to throw out speaker Michael Martin - the first in years. In January, he chased down and caught a shoplifter.

He saw the man running from a shop, chased him down and held him until the police arrived. As he collared the man he said: "You probably don't want to hear this, but I'm your local MP. Yes, really. Wilson Carswell was a doctor in Uganda and met the late president Idi Amin in hospital on a few occasions. There are two groups vying to lead the Brexit camp but only one can become the official lead campaign. He grew up in London and went to Oxford, to study politics of all things.

And he only moved here to become an MP…. I started [a] new role in America four days later. It was the perfect turning of the page. He still has some involvement in post-Brexit Britain; last November, he was appointed as a non-executive board member for the Department for International Trade.

But how people vote is a consequence of how they think. I needed to be upstream from the party political process. Washington DC was too like Westminster — hence why he chose state level politics. There are striking differences, Carswell says, with the UK system. Farage ran unsuccessfully more than half a dozen times. He left the U. Independence Party in , later stepping down from Parliament.

In an email introducing his new position in Mississippi, Carswell said he believes freedom in the U. Carswell said he thinks school choice can give low-income Mississippi families more opportunities. He said he will push policies to make the state more competitive in attracting new businesses and allowing existing ones to grow.