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
Independence Day (Uzbekistan) law on the state independence of Uzbekistan. Once the laws were signed by Karimov, the Uzbek SSR was renamed to the Republic of Uzbekistan The next day was then declared a national holiday and a day off from work by the government. In 1992, Independence Day was celebrated for the first time. The film Istiqlol ("Independence") directed by Davron Salimov was shown in cinemas in Tashkent. It honoured the 5th anniversary of independence. It was on this year that President Karimov awarded the title of Hero of Uzbekistan for the first time. It celebrated the 25th jubilee anniversary of independence.