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The Brexit Party is to be relaunched as an anti-lockdown party called Reform UK, in a move which could alarm Conservative MPs jittery about Covid-19 policy.
Plans to change the name of the Brexit Party to Reform UK were submitted to the Electoral Commission last week.
The Brexit Party is to be relaunched as an anti-lockdown party called Reform UK, in a move which could alarm Conservative MPs jittery about Covid-19 policy.
Plans to change the name of the Brexit Party to Reform UK were submitted to the Electoral Commission last week.
Writing in tomorrow's Daily Telegraph, @Nigel_Farage and @TiceRichard declare that "lockdowns don't work" and say their new party will back a "focused protection" policy to protect only the most vulnerable to allow the rest of the population to develop herd immunity.
Reform UK hopes to stand a slate of candidates at next May's elections - when the Tories are contesting thousands of shire seats - as well as policing and crime commissioner elections, and the next general election, expected by 2024.
Full story: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/11/01/exclusive-nigel-farage-relaunch-brexit-party-reform-uk-new-anti/
Full story: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/11/01/exclusive-nigel-farage-relaunch-brexit-party-reform-uk-new-anti/
. @Nigel_Farage and @TiceRichard tell @Telegraph: "We are showing the courage needed to take on consensus thinking and vested interests on Covid. But there are so many areas of public life that can be improved to benefit ordinary people. That is why we will campaign for Reform."
