Reform UK

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Reform UK
Leader	Nigel Farage
Chairman	Richard Tice
Co-Deputy Leaders	David Bull Ben Habib
Founders	Nigel Farage Catherine Blaiklock
Founded	23 November 2018; 5 years ago (2018-11-23) as the Brexit Party
Headquarters	83 Victoria Street London SW1 0HW[1]
Devolved branches	Reform UK Scotland Reform UK Wales
Membership	40,000+[2][third-party source needed]
Ideology	Right-wing populism Euroscepticism
Political position	Right-wing[3]
Affiliates	Reform Derby[4] Bolton for Change[5]
Northern Irish affiliation	Reform UK–TUV alliance
Colours	Turquoise and white
Slogan	Britain Needs Reform
House of Commons	Parliament dissolved
London Assembly	1 / 25
Local government[6]	10 / 18,725
Website
reformparty.uk
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Reform UK is a right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. Founded in November 2018 as the Brexit Party, advocating a no-deal Brexit, it won the 2019 European Parliament election in the UK, but did not win any seats at the 2019 general election. After the UK's withdrawal from the EU in January 2020, it renamed itself Reform UK, and during the COVID-19 pandemic advocated strongly against lockdowns.^[7] Since 2022, the party has campaigned on a broader platform, in particular opposing immigration and the government's Net Zero energy policy.^[8][9] Following Farage's resumption of the party leadership in early June during the 2024 general election campaign, Reform surged in opinion polls to within 2% of the Conservatives.

Farage had been the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a right-wing populist and Eurosceptic party, in the first half of the 2010s, and returned to frontline politics as leader of the Brexit Party during the lengthy Brexit process after the 2016 EU membership referendum, which had been called partly in response to UKIP's influence.^[10][11] The Brexit Party campaigned for a no-deal Brexit and there were high-profile defections to it from the Conservative Party, including Ann Widdecombe and Annunziata Rees-Mogg.^[12] Following the election of foremost Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson as Leader of the Conservative Party, Farage offered him an electoral pact at the 2019 general election, which Johnson rejected, but the Brexit Party decided unilaterally not to stand candidates against sitting Conservative MP's. It did not win any seats at the 2019 general election.

By May 2020, the British exit from the EU having taken place, the party focussed on the reformation of British democracy and a name change from Brexit Party to Reform Party was proposed.^[13][14][15] The COVID-19 pandemic began in the UK in 2020, and the Conservative government imposed a series of national lockdowns. Farage rebranded the party as Reform UK around the end of the year and focussed on anti-lockdown campaigning.^[16][17] Farage stepped down as leader in March 2021 and was succeeded by Richard Tice. Lee Anderson, who was elected in 2019 as a Conservative MP, defected to the party in March 2024, becoming the party's first and only MP.^[18] In a press conference on 3 June 2024, Richard Tice announced that Nigel Farage would become leader once more, with Tice continuing as Chairman. ^[19]