Jonathan Arnott, once pretender to Nigel Farage's throne, tells the BBC how chess is his real passion.
"Politics is so demanding as a career that it just got in the way of my chess," admits former politician Jonathan Arnott.Today he's left his political career behind and is back in his home city of Sheffield where he's turned part of an out-of-town industrial estate into the new South Yorkshire Chess and Education Centre.
"Broadly speaking I was self-taught and that isn't always good as there were huge gaps in my knowledge. It was very difficult to keep up with the top juniors in the country."from the government to help young talent develop. This includes plans to expand chess in schools and install chess tables in local parks.
He competed in the European Chess Club Cup in Slovenia and Bulgaria as well playing in Las Vegas. He also represented Great Britain at the board game Stratego. By that point he was already becoming disillusioned. He eventually resigned from UKIP in 2018, warning it was heading in a "bland and anti-Muslim" direction. He remained in the European Parliament until July 2019 sitting as an independent.
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