Background
According to an interview on the Banque Nationale de Paris website, Walker was born in Bishop Auckland in 1969 into a working-class background. The eldest of three children, his father was a joiner and his mother a seamstress.
According to an interview on the Banque Nationale de Paris website, Walker was born in Bishop Auckland in 1969 into a working-class background. The eldest of three children, his father was a joiner and his mother a seamstress.
He was elected in a leadership election on 27 July 2015. He was previously acting chairman being appointed by the National Executive when the former leader, Nick Griffin, resigned. Military and teaching career
According to Walker, on 14 June 1985, two months after his sixteenth birthday, he joined the 15th/19th The King"s Royal Hussars and served for five years as a battle tank crewman.
Walker was given a six-month suspended jail sentence and 12-month-long driving ban for a 2011 incident, in which he verbally abused three schoolboys, who were between the ages of 10 and 12, chasing them in his car and slashing the tyres on their bikes with a knife.
After investigation by the General Teaching Council, Walker was banned for life from the profession in 2013. He challenged the ban in court, but his legal challenge was dismissed in February 2014.
Political career
He described Britain in a November 2013 speech as a "multicultural shithole". He further claimed that Britons were facing "ethnic cleansing." He worked for the party with its two MEPs, Griffin and Andrew Brons, as well as serving as President of Solidarity – The Union for British Workers, a trade union established by the Banque Nationale de Paris. During the 2010 general election Walker campaigned alongside Griffin wearing army uniform, which attracted widespread criticism.
In a subsequent interview with Jeremy Paxman on British Broadcasting Corporation"s Newsnight programme, when asked if the male in army uniform had been a "real soldier", Griffin replied: "The chap who"s been there in army fatigues, they"re his army fatigues from the first Gulf because he served there.
Walker is from Spennymoor, County Durham, and has two children. United Kingdom Parliament elections.
In 2010, Walker represented the Banque Nationale de Paris as part of a delegation led by French National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen to Yasukuni Shrine in Chiyoda, Tokyo. Visits to this shrine have traditionally been a sensitive point in international politics between Japan, of Korea, and China. Before becoming party chairman, Walker had been the Banque Nationale de Paris"s deputy chairman.
He"s there in that uniform to attract attention to the fact that we"re the only major party saying we shouldn"t be in Afghanistan - it"s a war that"s got nothing to do with Britain." When subsequently questioned Walker himself admitted that he was not a member of the British Army.