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Reform UK aimed to become the third largest party in the UK by vote share and won four MPs.
The Reform Party took most of the Conservative vote in all four seats, and in Nigel Farage’s new seat of Clacton, the party overturned a Conservative majority of more than 25,000 votes.
Responding to the result, Mr Farage claimed it marked “the beginning of the end of the Conservative party”.
here, I Meet the four new reform-leaning members of Congress.
Nigel Farage
Farage, 60, finally won his Essex seat after eight tries.
Although currently a Reform Party member, he joined the Conservative Party in 1978 but left in 1992 after the UK signed the Maastricht Treaty.
Farage later became Member of the European Parliament for South East England in 1999.
In 2006, he led the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in its campaign to leave the EU, which led to a breakthrough in the 2009 European Parliament elections, where UKIP won more votes than either Labour or the Liberal Democrats. As a member of the European Parliament, he became a notorious critic of the EU until Britain left the European Union in 2020.
Farage played a key role in the 2016 EU referendum and helped form the Brexit Party in November 2018, subsequently becoming its leader and campaigning for changes to the electoral system.
Farage’s key pledges as Reform Party leader include achieving “net zero immigration”, banning small boat borders, leaving the UK out of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), hiring more police officers and building 10,000 new prisons.
he, New StatesmanHe was described as “the most influential person on the UK right” in the 2023 Right Power List.
Richard Tice
Mr Tice, 59, the new Member of Parliament for Boston and Skegness, previously worked for property development company London & Metropolitan, based in the firm’s Paris office.
He was one of the founders of the Leave Means Leave campaign and was instrumental in setting up the group Leave.EU, which closed in 2018. £70,000 fine This is due to breaches of election laws during the referendum on leaving the EU.
Tice was a member of the Conservative party until April 2019 when he left to become chairman of the Brexit Party, but was only a member of the European Parliament for six weeks, a role he held until the UK formally left the EU in 2020.
In 2019, he stood for the MP for Hartlepool but finished third in the polls. He stood again in the London Assembly in March 2021 as the Reform candidate for Havering and Redbridge, and later the same year for the MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup.
He became leader of Reform UK in March 2021 but stepped down when Mr Farage announced his return in June last year.
“I think this is just the beginning. We’re still in the preliminary stages,” he said in his acceptance speech on election night.
Lee Anderson
Mr Anderson, 57, began his political career with the miners’ union and became the Labour councillor for Ashfield District Council in 2015.
He was subsequently expelled from his local party in Nottingham. The rock was allegedly used to prevent a group of travelers from settling in the area.A month later he defected to the Conservative Party.
He became the Conservative MP for Ashfield in 2019 and was subsequently appointed Deputy Chair of the Conservative Party in 2023.
Anderson resigned from his post in January last year to oppose Mr Sunak’s Rwanda Bill.
A month later, he was expelled from the party after refusing to apologise for comments he made towards Sadiq Khan.
He also said that migrants in Biby Stockholm should “go back to France”. Daily Express“I think people are fed up,” he added. “These people are coming across the Channel in small boats… If they don’t like the conditions they’re being held in here they should go back to France, or shouldn’t come at all.”
Rupert Lowe
Rowe, 66, has been Reform UK’s business and agriculture spokesman since last year.
He served as Brexit Party MEP for the West Midlands from 2019 to 2020 and was chairman of Southampton Football Club from 1996 to 2022 and again from 2009 to 2019.
Mr Rowe stood as the National Vote Party candidate in the 1997 Cotswold general election and also stood in the 2024 Kingswood by-election, coming third, achieving the Reform Party’s best by-election result in its history.
After his election, Lowe said, “This is a story that people EnoughThey want change, they want better government, and they want freedom.
“My job, together with other Reform Party members, is to reform Westminster.”