parliament birth_place constituency_mp party birth_date term_start article_title name alma_mater
european london south west england ukip -rrb- -lrb- 1988 -- 90 -rrb- sdp -lrb- 1981 -- -lrb- 88 -rrb- 1993 -- present -rrb- sdp -lrb- 1988 16 july 1952 1 july 2014 julia reid
 dr julia reid university of bath
julia reid

dr julia reid -lrb- born 16 july 1952 -rrb- is a member of the european parliament for the south west england region for the uk independence party .
she was elected in 2014 .
she was educated at the john bentley school and the university of bath , where she graduated with a degree in biochemistry , later obtaining a phd in pharmacology .
she worked as a diabetes laboratory researcher at the royal united hospital until being made redundant in 2009 .
reid joined the sdp during its inaugural year , 1981 , and stayed with the party until its merger with the liberals in 1988 .
reid opposed the pro-eu stance of the new liberal democrats and instead joined the continuing sdp , remaining with them until their demise in 1990 .
in 1993 , reid joined the newly founded ukip .
she was fourth on the south west region party list for the 2009 european election .
in 2010 , she contested the new seat of chippenham in the general election , finishing fourth with 1,783 votes -lrb- 3.4 % -rrb- .
in 2011 , she became a research assistant for trevor colman .
reid was elected onto calne town council in 2013 .
she contested chippenham again in 2015 - coming third .
