Jury Team | |
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| Leader | Sir Paul Judge |
| Founded | 13 March 2009 |
| Dissolved | 9 May 2011 |
| Headquarters | 152 Grosvenor Road, London, SW1 3JL, United Kingdom[1] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Big tent |
| National affiliation | Alliance for Democracy |
| Website | |
| http://www.juryteam.org/ | |
The Jury Team was a British political campaign established in 2009 to back independent candidates in United Kingdom domestic and European elections. Although it was a registered UK political party, it was described as an umbrella organisation giving financial and marketing backing to independent candidates, who were free to set their own political agenda outside of the traditional model of standing as the candidate of a particular party. Jury Team employed a novel selection process for its independent candidates, allowing any member of the public to apply to be promoted for backing, and leaving final candidate selection to the public, by text message voting. After contesting the European Parliament elections in June 2009, the Jury Team's first Independent United Kingdom parliamentary candidate was John Smeaton, who stood in the 2009 Glasgow North East by-election.
The organisation was dissolved in 2011. None of its candidates were ever elected.