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Reform UK

Reform UK
LeaderRichard Tice
ChairmanRichard Tice
Co-Deputy LeadersDavid Bull
Ben Habib
Honorary PresidentNigel Farage[1][2]
Founders
Founded23 November 2018 (2018-11-23) as the Brexit Party
Split fromUK Independence Party (UKIP)
Headquarters83 Victoria Street
London
SW1 0HW[3]
Devolved branchesReform UK Scotland
Reform UK Wales
IdeologyRight-wing populism
Euroscepticism
Political positionRight-wing[4]
AffiliatesReform Derby[5]
Bolton for Change[6]
Northern Irish affiliation
Colours    Turquoise and white
Slogan Let’s Save Britain
House of Commons
1 / 650
Local government[7]
10 / 18,725
Website
reformparty.uk

Reform UK is a right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Catherine Blaiklock with support from Nigel Farage in November 2018 as the Brexit Party, advocating hard Euroscepticism and a no-deal Brexit. It was a significant political force at the 2019 European Parliament election, but failed to win any seats at the 2019 general election. After the UK's withdrawal from the European Union (EU) on 31 January 2020, it was renamed to Reform UK, and it became primarily an anti-lockdown party during the COVID-19 pandemic.[8] Since 2022, the party has campaigned on a platform of broader right-wing populist issues, chiefly surrounding illegal migration and the government’s Net Zero energy policy.[9]

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. He 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 won high-profile defections from the Conservative Party, including Ann Widdecombe and Annunziata Rees-Mogg.[12] It also won some endorsements from some left-wing supporters of Brexit, including George Galloway.[13] Following the election of the leading Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson as Leader of the Conservative Party, Farage offered him an electoral pact at the 2019 general election; the offer was rejected, but the Brexit Party unilaterally decided not to stand candidates in constituencies won by the Conservatives in the previous election. The Brexit Party failed to win any seats at the 2019 general election.

By May 2020, because it had styled itself as being focused on the reformation of British democracy, there were proposals to rebrand the Brexit Party as the Reform Party.[14][15][16] The COVID-19 pandemic began in the UK in 2020, and the Conservative government imposed a national lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19. Farage rebranded the party as Reform UK around the end of the year to focus on anti-lockdown campaigning.[17][18] He stepped down as the 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 Member of Parliament (MP).[19]

  1. ^ "Nigel Farage claims Brexit 'still not completed' despite Sunak deal". The Independent. 25 March 2023.
  2. ^ Scott, Geraldine (30 July 2023). "Tories fear Nigel Farage and Reform UK could deliver a red wall rout". The Times.
  3. ^ "View registration – The Electoral Commission". search.electoralcommission.org.uk. Archived from the original on 11 May 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  4. ^ Boscia, Stefan (27 April 2023). "Trump who? Farage's party cozies up to DeSantis as White House hopeful lands in UK". Politico. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  5. ^ https://www.reformderby.uk/
  6. ^ https://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/English/Registrations/PP11460
  7. ^ "Open Council Data UK". 15 February 2024. Archived from the original on 15 February 2024. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  8. ^ "Party registration decisions". electoralcommission.org.uk. Archived from the original on 16 March 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  9. ^ Scott, Geraldine. "Tories fear Nigel Farage and Reform UK could deliver a red wall rout". Archived from the original on 14 December 2022. Retrieved 13 December 2022 – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
  10. ^ Matthew Goodwin and Caitlin Milazzo (2015), UKIP: Inside the Campaign to Redraw the Map of British Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 126.
  11. ^ Matt Reed (2016), "'This Loopy Idea': An Analysis of UKIP's Social Media Discourse in Relation to Rurality and Climate Change", Space and Polity, 20(2), pp. 226–241.
  12. ^ "Rees-Mogg elected Brexit Party MEP". BBC News. 27 May 2019. Archived from the original on 31 January 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
  13. ^ Marsden, Chris (24 April 2019). "George Galloway declares for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party". World Socialist Web Site. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  14. ^ "Could Farage's 'Reform Party' carve him a new role in post-Brexit British politics". ConservativeHome. 25 November 2019. Archived from the original on 19 May 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  15. ^ "General election 2019: Farage promises Reform Party after Brexit". BBC News. 8 December 2019. Archived from the original on 22 August 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  16. ^ "Nigel Farage planning to launch new political party". The New European. 6 March 2020. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  17. ^ Skopeliti, Clea (2 November 2020). "Reform UK: Brexit party to rebrand as anti-lockdown voice". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 18 April 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  18. ^ "Nigel Farage: Brexit Party to focus on fighting lockdown". BBC News. 2 November 2020. Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  19. ^ "Lee Anderson: Ex-Tory MP defects to Reform UK". BBC News. 11 March 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2024.

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