Editing Roger Helmer (section)

{{short description|British politician and businessman|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2015}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Roger Helmer
| honorific-prefix    = 
| honorific-suffix    = 
| image               = Helmer, Roger-9461.jpg
| footnotes           = 
| party               = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] (1993–2012)<br />[[UK Independence Party|UKIP]] (2012–2017)
| majority1           = 
| parliament1         = European
| predecessor1        = ''Position established''
| successor1          = [[Jonathan Bullock]]
| birth_date          = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1944|01|25}}
| birth_place         = London, England
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| nationality         = British
| alma_mater          = [[Churchill College, Cambridge]]
| religion            = 
| constituency_MP1    = [[East Midlands (European Parliament constituency)|East Midlands]]
| term_start1         = 1 May 1999
| term_end1           = 28 July 2017
| successor           = 
}}
'''Roger Helmer''' (born 25 January 1944) is a British politician and businessman. He was a [[Member of the European Parliament]] (MEP) for the [[East Midlands (European Parliament constituency)|East Midlands]] [[regions of England|region]] from 1999 to 2017. Before becoming an MEP, he was a business executive.

Helmer was elected to the [[European Parliament]] in [[1999 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom|1999]], [[2004 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom|2004]], and [[2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom|2009]] as a member of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] and in 2014 as a member of the [[UK Independence Party]] (UKIP), having defected from the Conservatives to UKIP in March 2012.<ref name=micandidate.eu>{{cite web |title=Candidate Profile: Roger Helmer |url=http://www.micandidate.eu/candidate.aspx?idcandidate=2650&idconstituency=119 |publisher=MiCandidate.eu |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720171325/http://www.micandidate.eu/candidate.aspx?idcandidate=2650&idconstituency=119 |access-date=10 August 2009 |archive-date=20 July 2011 |url-status=dead  }}</ref><ref name="British Broadcasting Corporation">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17242953 |title= Conservative MEP Roger Helmer joins UKIP|publisher = BBC|date=2 March 2012}}</ref> He has described himself as a [[Euroscepticism|eurosceptic]] and is a supporter of the [[Better Off Out]] campaign.