John Tennant (born 15 December 1986) is a British politician, who has been the Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North East of England since 2019 and the party leader of Independent Union, of which he is a councillor on Hartlepool Borough Council for the Jesmond ward.In September 2019, all IU councillors, as well as the one Veterans and People's Party councillor, who made up the coalition at Hartlepool Borough Council defected to the Brexit Party, renaming their already existing coalition with the three Conservative councillors to the "Brexit and Conservative Coalition".
Despite this, the IU is still registered with the Electoral Commission with Tennant listed as its current leader.