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 (June 2024)	50,000+[2][third-party source needed] (at least 45,000)[3]
Ideology	Right-wing populism Euroscepticism
Political position	Right-wing[4]
Affiliates	Reform Derby[5] Bolton for Change[6]
Northern Irish affiliation	Reform UK–TUV alliance
Colours	Turquoise and white
Slogan	Britain Needs Reform
House of Commons	1 / 650 Prior to Parliament being dissolved on 30 May 2024, for the 4 July 2024 election
London Assembly	1 / 25
Local government[7]	15 / 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. The UK withdrew from the European Union (EU) in January 2020. A year later, in January 2021, the party was renamed Reform UK.^[8] During the COVID-19 pandemic the party advocated against further lockdowns. Since 2022, it has campaigned on a broader platform, in particular pledging to reduce net migration, supporting low taxation, and opposing the government's net-zero energy policy.^[9][10][11] Following Nigel Farage's resumption of the party leadership in early June during the 2024 general election campaign, opinion pollsters and analysts reported an increase in support for the party.

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 Brexit process after the 2016 EU membership referendum, which had been called partly in response to UKIP's influence.^[12][13] The party won 29 seats at the May 2019 European Parliament election, which was the best result for any single party in the 9th European Parliament.

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.^[14] Following Boris Johnson's election as the 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 MPs.

By May 2020, the British exit from the EU having taken place, the party focused on the reformation of British democracy and a name change from Brexit Party to Reform Party was proposed.^[15][16][17] 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.^[18][19] Farage stepped down as leader in March 2021 and was succeeded by Richard Tice. In March 2024, Lee Anderson, who was elected in 2019 as a Conservative MP, defected to Reform UK, becoming the party's first and only MP.^[20] On 3 June 2024, Richard Tice announced that Nigel Farage would become leader once more, with Tice continuing as Chairman.^[21]