Philip Proudfoot

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Philip Proudfoot
Leader of the Northern Independence Party
Assumed office
21 October 2020
Personal details
Born (1987-11-28) 28 November 1987 (age 34)[1]
County Durham, England
Political partyNorthern Independence Party
Other political
affiliations		Labour Party (until 2020)
Residence(s)Brighton, East Sussex, England
Alma materLondon School of Economics (PhD)[2]
OccupationUniversity lecturer

Philip Proudfoot (born 28 November 1987) is an English politician and anthropologist. Born and raised in County Durham, he is the founder and leader of the Northern Independence Party (NIP), which campaigns against political and economic centralisation by demanding that Northern England becomes an independent country under its historic name, "Northumbria".[3] He also lectures in power and popular politics at the University of Sussex's Institute of Development Studies where he is a specialist in the Middle East, conflict, war and humanitarianism.[4]

A former member of Labour Party, Proudfoot formed the NIP in response to Keir Starmer's leadership and Westminster's treatment of the North during the COVID-19 pandemic.[5] He told Big Issue North that the centralisation of power in London had played a part as well, highlighting the North-South divide in healthcare, transport, education, and general standard of living as motivating factors.[6]

Proudfoot lives in Brighton and Hove.[7] In response to critics wondering why someone living in the South of England would support Northern independence, he said that this is an issue which epitomises the North-South divide - younger people from the North of England having to leave their hometowns to find work in cities, predominantly in the South.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ Proudfoot, Philip [@PhilipProudfoot] (28 November 2021). "Why am I spending my birthday trying to get my legally registered political party @FreeNorthNow unlocked by Twitter … #FreeTheNorth" (Tweet). Retrieved 14 January 2022 – via Twitter.
    Drury, Colin (3 November 2020). "An independent north? What an England severed in two might look like". The Independent. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  2. ^ Proudfoot, Philip (2016). "The living dead: revolutionary subjectivity and Syrian rebel-workers in Beirut". PhD thesis. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  3. ^ Lockwood, Tasmin (16 November 2020). "County Durham man leads new party making the case for Northern Independence". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
    - Park, Victoria (2 April 2021). "Seven thoughts about the Northern Independence Party". New Statesman. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  4. ^ a b Shone, Ethan (12 April 2021). "Northern Independence Party: what is NIP, who is Philip Proudfoot - and will it run in Hartlepool by-election?". National World. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  5. ^ Sweet, Michael (28 March 2021). "Yes Northumbria? The independence bug is catching on - in England's north". The National. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  6. ^ Moss, Chris (23 November 2021). "Devolution's sunny uplands". Big Issue North. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  7. ^ Bright, Sam (5 May 2021). "The Party Chasing Labour in the North of England". Byline Times. Retrieved 22 March 2022.

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