Reform UK

Reform UK is a right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. It has five members of Parliament in the House of Commons, one member of the London Assembly, one member of the Senedd, one member of the Scottish Parliament and one police and crime commissioner. It also controls twelve local councils. It sits on the right-wing of the left–right political spectrum, generally to the right of the Conservative Party.^{[12][13][14][15]} Nigel Farage has been Leader of Reform UK since June 2024.

Co-founded by Farage and Catherine Blaiklock in 2018 as the Brexit Party, advocating a no-deal Brexit, it won the most seats at the 2019 European Parliament election in the UK, but won no seats at the 2019 general election.^[16] The UK withdrew from the European Union in January 2020, and later in the same year the COVID-19 pandemic began in the UK. The Conservative government imposed a series of national lockdowns and Farage focused on anti-lockdown campaigning.^[17][18] The party was renamed Reform UK in January 2021. Farage stepped down as leader in March 2021 and was succeeded by Richard Tice.

Since 2022 the party has campaigned on a broader platform, pledging to limit immigration, reduce taxation and opposing net-zero emissions policies. In March 2024 Lee Anderson, who was elected in 2019 as a Conservative MP, defected to Reform UK, becoming its first MP.^[19] In June 2024 Farage resumed the leadership, and the party won five seats at the 2024 general election,^[20] the first time it had elected MPs.