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Longworth is the chairman of Leave Means Leave. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber from 2019 to 2020.

On 15 April 2019, Longworth announced he would be standing as a candidate for the Brexit Party. In the 2019 European Parliament election, he was elected a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Yorkshire and the Humber. In July 2019 he became a member of the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and of the European Parliament Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. He was expelled from the Brexit Party and lost the party whip in December 2019 for "repeatedly undermining their general election strategy."

In March 2016, he became the only leader of a major business group, the BCC, to back leaving the EU. Since this went against the position the BCC and its members had agreed to take on the referendum he was suspended as Director General. He subsequently resigned and volunteered to lead the business campaign to leave the EU, as chairman of the Vote Leave Business Council and is now chairman of Leave Means Leave, a lobby group set up to promote a hard Brexit. In October 2017, Longworth and Richard Tice, Treasurer and Vice Chairman of Leave Means Leave, were jointly placed at Number 90 on the list of 'The Top 100 Most Influential on the Right'.

John Longworth (born 14 May 1958) is a British business consultant and politician. He was the director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce from September 2011 until March 2016, when he departed in controversy by breaking with the organisation's line on Brexit on the day of its conference.

John Longworth was born in May 1958 and was educated at Smithills School, Bolton, and the University of Salford, where he obtained bachelor's and master's degrees. He is a chartered company secretary and has a postgraduate certificate in microbiology.