Young Independence who received 120 votes. However, on 31 August that year, Sumner left UKIP and joined the Conservative Party. McKenzie then appointed Katie Fanning as his new Deputy.. During his 13-month chairmanship, McKenizie served under four different UKIP leaders (Farage, James, Nuttall and Crowther) and while Young Independence membership levels remained comparatively strong, UKIP's vote share collapsed during the 2017 general election. The general election was followed by a long leadership campaign, in which McKenzie (along with a large majority of Young Independence) supported the unsuccessful candidate John Rees-Evans. Towards the end of the leadership campaign, the Young Independence Conference was
National Mathematics Year National Mathematics Year In India and in Nigeria the year 2012 CE is celebrated and believed as the National Mathematics Year. In India, the National Mathematics Year is celebrated as a tribute to the mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan who was born on 22 December 1887 and whose 125th birthday falls on 22 December 2012. In Nigeria, the year 2012 is observed as National Mathematics Year as part of the Federal Government’s effort to promote and popularize the study of mathematics. The decision to designate the year 2012 CE as National Mathematics Year was announced by Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister