Question: Who is an English academic, politician and broadcaster, that was the leader of the British political party Veritas?
Context: Veritas (Latin: truth) was a political party in the United Kingdom, formed in February 2005 by Robert Kilroy-Silk following a split from the UK Independence Party (UKIP).  Kilroy-Silk served as party leader from formation, through the 2005 General Election, until his resignation in July that year.  He was succeeded by Patrick Eston, who resigned the leadership on 15 June 2008 citing frustrations of his efforts to reform the party and was replaced by Therese Muchewicz.  The party merged into the English Democrats in June 2015. The History of British Political Parties, also referred to as Politico's Guide to the History of British Political Parties, is a reference book about political parties in the United Kingdom.  Written by David Boothroyd, it was published in 2001 by Politico's Publishing Ltd and distributed in the United States by International Specialized Book Services (ISBS).  At the time of the book's publication, Boothroyd worked as a researcher with Parliamentary Monitoring Services.  The book contains entries on over 250 UK political parties that have participated in parliamentary elections.  It is structured alphabetically by entry, with the size of each entry relative to the history and influence of the individual political party.  Boothroyd includes information about the history and election statistics of each party, as well as a brief narrative.  He focuses on the Conservative, Liberal, and Labour parties; the parties with the most significant histories in British politics. Anthony John Stuart "Tony" Bennett (born 7 September 1947) is an English former solicitor and former candidate for public office.  He was a member of the British political party Veritas and was listed on the database of the Electoral Commission as official leader for three days, before the real leader was revealed as Robert Kilroy-Silk. Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.  In 1940, Attlee took Labour into the wartime coalition government and served under Winston Churchill, becoming the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.  He went on to lead the Labour Party to an unexpected landslide victory at the 1945 general election; forming the first Labour majority government, and a mandate to implement its postwar reforms.  The 12.0% national swing from the Conservatives to Labour was unprecedented at that time and remains the largest ever achieved by any party at a general election in British electoral history.  He was re-elected with a narrow majority at the 1950 general election.  In the following year, Attlee called a snap general election, hoping to increase his parliamentary majority.  However, he was narrowly defeated by the Conservatives under the leadership of Winston Churchill; despite winning the most votes of any political party in any general election in British political history until the Conservative Party's fourth consecutive victory in 1992.  Attlee remains the longest-ever serving Leader of the Labour Party. The Alliance for Democracy was an electoral coalition of two British political parties, the English Democrats and the Jury Team.  The Christian Party, and Veritas were associates. The White Nationalist Party (WNP) was a neo-fascist British political party, founded in May 2002 as "the British political wing of Aryan Unity".  On 6 June 2005 the White Nationalist Party National Council decided at a meeting in Sheffield to pass out of existence and to turn its membership over to the Nationalist Alliance . Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk (born Robert Michael Silk on 19 May 1942) is an English academic, politician and broadcaster.  After a decade as a university lecturer, he was a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 1986.  He left the House of Commons in 1986 to present a new daytime talk show, "Kilroy", which ran until 2004.  He then served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 to 2009.  Having been elected as a UK Independence Party (UKIP) candidate, he left them in 2005 to found a new party which he called Veritas.  He resigned as its leader later the same year, and sat as an independent MEP for the rest of his term. One London was a small British political party formed on 1 September 2005 by Damian Hockney and Peter Hulme-Cross.  They were elected to the London Assembly in June 2004 as United Kingdom Independence Party representatives, but in February 2005 announced the formation of the Veritas group at the Assembly.  With the disintegration of Veritas after its poor showing in the 2005 general election, Hockney and Hulme-Cross formed One London, with Hockney as leader. Tower Hamlets First was a British political party represented in Tower Hamlets London Borough Council, which was launched to contest the 2014 local elections.  At the 2014 London borough council elections, it was the second largest party on Tower Hamlets Council and the fifth largest political party out of all London borough councils. Herbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel (6 November 1870 – 5 February 1963), was a British Liberal politician who was the party leader from 1931 to 1935.  He was the first nominally-practising Jew, although a personal atheist, to serve as a Cabinet minister and to become the leader of a major British political party.  Samuel was the last member of the Liberal Party to hold one of the four Great Offices of State.  He also served as a diplomat.
Answer: Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk