Robert Michael Kilroy-Silk is a British politician, independent Member of the European Parliament and a well-known former presenter of his the daytime talk show Kilroy. Before this he was a university lecturer and Labour Party Member of Parliament who recently stood successfully for the UK Independence Party in the 2004 election to the European Parliament, before leaving them in 2005 to found a new party called "Veritas", from which he in turn resigned as leader later the same year.