Your Team
Malcolm and Jenny Wood run my political office in the UK which is situated in Wilton near Salisbury whilst Steve Crowther concentrates on constituency affairs.
Malcolm and Jenny
Malcolm and Jenny have been heavily involved with UKIP since Malcolm joined immediately after receiving Nigel Farage's 1994 Euro Election address. Shortly afterwards he became Chairman of UKIP Salisbury had the satisfaction seeing it becoming UKIP's largest branch in the country.
He was then asked to organise UKIP South West's campaign for the 2001 General Election and continued to work as the SW organiser until his retirement following the successful 2009 European Campaign.
UKIP being a way of life as well as an occupation Jenny and Malcolm were delighted to take on the more static role of running William Dartmouth's political office from Wilton.
Steve
"What a joy to be back in the West Country, after 30 years’ exile in London!
The South West counties are in my blood, and I have connections in all of them. I was born and bred in North Devon, though my father’s roots lie in Dorset and my mother’s deep in North Cornwall.
As a youngster I had the privilege of singing in Salisbury Cathedral choir, before coming back to school in Tiverton.
After a break sheep-farming in New Zealand I went up to Bristol Polytechnic (now UWE), where I stretched my fledgling political wings by getting elected President of the Union. Then to complete the set, I got married in Stroud, to a Taunton girl.
I started work on Fleet Street in the year that Margaret Thatcher came to power, and spent several years working as a ‘spin doctor’, before it was fashionable. Subsequently, moderate success running advertising agencies – and some fortunate timing – enabled me to move back to the SW and devote myself entirely to the cause of UK Independence.
I’m now married to Caroline, who’s just gone back to university as a mature student; and have two sons, both aged 20, who are studying something that doesn’t interfere unduly with their sport and drinking, at Sussex and Nottingham.
How I look forward to a UKIP government bringing back student grants!".
Steve Crowther
Brussels - Line Sophie
Line Sophie Munk Olsen is William's assistant in Brussels and Strasbourg. She helps William with aspects of Parliamentary work on a daily basis such as research, drafting questions to the Council and Commission, following the Committee on International Trade that William is a member of. Line liaises with Jenny and Malcolm in the constituency office and provides support to them where necessary.
Line has a master's degree from the Aarhus School of Business in Denmark and has been working in the European Parliament for the past 6 years for a Danish eurosceptic party. She became active in EU-politics after the Danish No in the Euro referendum in 2001 where politicians immediately started to discuss when the Danes should vote on the issue again.