Editing Adam Walker (section)

== Biography ==

=== Birth ===
Walker was born in Bishop Auckland on the 1st April 1969 into a working-class background by a seamstress mother and a joiner father.

=== Career as a soldier ===
[[File:Adam Walker the soldier.jpg|left|thumb|215x215px|2010, Adam Walker wearing an army uniform alongside with Nick Griffin, ex-president of the [[BNP]].]]
On the 14th June 1985, at the age of 16, he joined the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars and served for 5 years as a battle tank crewman. 

=== Career as a teacher ===
After the discharge from the army, he worked for some time as a worker before studying for a National Diploma and use it for becoming a technology teacher at Houghton Kepier College near Sunderland, a post from which he was dismissed for using school computers to look at extremist products and engage in racially and religiously intolerant monologues at school.

In September 2012, Walker was given a six-month suspended jail sentence and twelve-month driving ban for an event occured on the 23rd April 2011, in which he verbally abused three schoolboys, who were between the ages of 10 and 12, chasing them in his Land Rover Discovery and slashing the tyres on their bikes with a sheath knife. After, Walker was banned for life from the profession in 2013. His legal challenge was dismissed in February 2014.

=== Career as a politician ===
In 2010, Walker became the rappresentant of the [[BNP]]. Then, Walker had been the [[BNP]]'s deputy chairman. He worked for the party with Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons, as well as serving as President of Solidarity (The Union for British Workers, a trade union established by the BNP).

After Nick Griffin stepped down as BNP leader on the 19th July 2014, Walker became interim leader until the leadership election in 2015. This was contested by Walker and Paul Hilliard, the BNP Derbyshire Sub Regional Organiser. The results were announced on the 27th July 2015, with Walker winning with 523 votes against Hilliard's 145.

On August 2016 in Northumbria, Adam Walker was arrested, because suspected of electoral fraud during the local election in Pendle on May 2016.

Walker sought re-election in the 2019 leadership election held in June. His only opponent was the BNP press officer and national spokesman: David Furness.  Walker won 308 votes  to Furness' 161 and was re-elected BNP leader.