Damian Hockney

(Nicholas Richard Alexander) Damian Hockney (born September 1956) is a former politician and member of the London Assembly.

Hockney started his political career in the Conservative Party before joining the Referendum Party and contesting the Lancashire seat of Pendle at the 1997 general election. By 1999 he had joined the United Kingdom Independence Party, standing as their candidate at a parliamentary by-election at Kensington and Chelsea. He failed to be elected then or at the 2001 general election in the same seat.

In the first London Mayoral election in 2000 he was UKIP's candidate, coming eighth with about 1% of the vote.

Four years later he was elected to the London Assembly. Although he failed to win the West Central constituency, he was elected as a UKIP London-wide member under the "top up" party list system, along with Peter Hulme-Cross. In January 2005 both he and Hulme-Cross defected to the new Veritas party formed after a split in UKIP. Veritas did poorly at the 2005 general election, and both assembly members left to form a new party, One London.

At the next assembly election in 2008, One London did not receive enough votes to secure any "top-up" seats and Hockney and Hulme-Cross lost their membership.