Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party will now be known as Reform UK after the Electoral Commission approved a name change.
The party will broaden its agenda to call for a different approach to the coronavirus crisis, as well as reform to the economy.
Party leader Mr Farage said the UK also needed to make changes to the voting system, civil service, BBC and House of Lords.
He said: “This is great news and the perfect time in the New Year. The need for Reform is greater than ever as we try to recover from Covid.
“We have a huge opportunity as a nation post-Brexit, but there are many areas of the UK that need real, bold reform: our economy, House of Lords, BBC, civil service, the voting system to mention a few.”
Nigel Farage’s new Reform UK party is unlikely to succeed – but his next one might The former Ukip leader is a poor frontman for lockdown scepticism, but his opponents have reason to be worried by his return to politics. Nigel Farage will re-enter British politics: renaming the Brexit Party as “Reform UK” and running against any lockdown restrictions in this year’s local elections, whether they are held in May or, as may be more likely, in June. In reality, the Brexit Party was, of course, Ukip 2.0, stripped of its internal democracy and other internal factors, which Farage’s close allies had blamed for many of that party’s near-misses. The Brexit Party was significantly more successful than Ukip; although its areas of strength and its areas of weakness were broadly the same as Ukip’s, it did a better job of breaking out of them, probably because the party didn’t find itself blown off course by the inflammatory remarks of its party members (because it didn
Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party will now be known as Reform UK after the Electoral Commission approved a name change.
The party will broaden its agenda to call for a different approach to the coronavirus crisis, as well as reform to the economy.
Party leader Mr Farage said the UK also needed to make changes to the voting system, civil service, BBC and House of Lords.
He said: “This is great news and the perfect time in the New Year. The need for Reform is greater than ever as we try to recover from Covid.
“We have a huge opportunity as a nation post-Brexit, but there are many areas of the UK that need real, bold reform: our economy, House of Lords, BBC, civil service, the voting system to mention a few.”
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Mr Farage told LBC Britain has set the standard by reclaiming independence from the trading bloc and said countries such as Italy will have to leave the Eurozone in the future. The Reform UK leader added Brexit will not be reversed and the younger generation will begin to see the democratic benefits of independence from the EU.