  christopher john fred gill rd (born 28 october 1936) is a politician in the united kingdom, and a former member of the national executive committee of the united kingdom independence party (ukip). he is also the current president of the freedom association (tfa). a former conservative party member of parliament, he was one of the maastricht rebels of the mid-1990s. ==biography== gill was born in wolverhampton where he was a local councillor and was educated locally at birchfield preparatory school and then shrewsbury school. his national service was in the royal navy, serving aboard hms modeste and hms birmingham. in 2006 he retired as chairman of his family's sausage-making business, f.a. gill ltd. gill served as conservative mp for ludlow from 1987 to 2001, when he stepped down. he was known as the "butcher from ludlow" because of his family company being a meat processing firm. during the maastricht rebellion, food minister nicholas soames threatened to "close every abattoir you own". he had the conservative whip withdrawn over the ec finance bill on november 28, 1994. as a constituency mp, gill fought against the closure of local cottage hospitals. gill was also known for being an expert on areas of european union legislation, and he was a notable eurosceptic. during the course of parliamentary sessions up to 2001, gill voted in favour of giving greater autonomy to schools, against removing hereditary peers from the house of lords, and against equal rights for homosexuals.mr christopher gill: former conservative mp for ludlowhttp://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/10227/christopher_gill/ludlow
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