The following article has been republished with the permission of APHSA. [75] It describes the party as seeking to "promote and encourage those who aspire to improve their personal situation and those who seek to be self-reliant, whilst providing protection for those genuinely in need; favour the ability of individuals to make decisions in respect of themselves; seek to diminish the role of the State; lower the burden of taxation on individuals and businesses. On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom withdrew from the European Union. [129] On 11 November, Farage then said his party would not stand in any of the 317 seats won by the Conservatives at the last election. [78], The party's first non-Brexit-related policy was announced on 4 June 2019: a proposition to transform British Steel into a partly worker-owned company, in what has been described as "a hybrid of Conservative and Labour policy". MEP Andrew England Kerr was expelled from the party on 29 September 2019 over a potential conflict of interest. The party's lead aim was for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, now achieved, and then trade with countries on World Trade Organization terms. Could our new parties repeat the trick? [91], Later in 2019, £6.4m was donated to the party by Christopher Harborne. On 23 May 2019, 26 Brexit Party MEPs were newly elected to the European Parliament, including Richard Tice and former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe, while Jonathan Bullock, Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill kept their seats. It won 29 members to the European Parliament in May 2019, but no MPs in the UK general election later that year. I have always admired Ann Widdecombe and May's failure to put her in the Lords was a travesty. For many years Council tax has been raising above inflation and thus decreasing disposable income. in the UK Policies for Constitutional Reform Policy Paper 40. When asked if the party took donations in foreign currency, Farage replied: "Absolutely not, we only take sterling – end of conversation." [127] On 8 September 2019, Farage wrote an article in the Sunday Telegraph and the Brexit Party took out advertisements in Sunday newspapers offering an electoral pact with the Conservative Party in the forthcoming general election, in which the Brexit Party would not be opposed by the Conservatives in traditional Labour Party seats in the north of England, the Midlands and Wales, and the Brexit Party would not contest seats in which they could split the Leave vote. EMPTY APOLOGY – Chief EU Commissioners apology over vaccine ban trashed by German MEP – “An export ban on European-produced vaccines must remain on the table”. [47], In 2021, Reform UK announced its intention to field a full slate of candidates in the upcoming Welsh Parliament, Scottish Parliament and London Assembly elections with leader Richard Tice standing for election in the latter. [40] The charity Reform, which holds the domain name reform.uk, had complained to the Electoral Commission regarding the name change, claiming that it risks damaging its goodwill through name confusion. Read more about Time to update: ... info@reform.uk 020 7799 6699. 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