Reform UK

Reform UK is a right-wing pop­ulist polit­i­cal par­ty in the Unit­ed King­dom, found­ed in late 2018 as the Brex­it Par­ty by Nigel Farage and Cather­ine Blaik­lock to push for a hard­er exit from the Euro­pean Union. After the UK for­mal­ly left the EU, it was rebrand­ed in Jan­u­ary 2021 as “Reform UK” and broad­ened its agen­da to empha­sise stricter immi­gra­tion, tax cuts, oppo­si­tion to net-zero emis­sions poli­cies, and reforms to the state. Under Farage’s renewed lead­er­ship since June 2024, the par­ty gained its first sig­nif­i­cant pres­ence in Par­lia­ment dur­ing the 2024 gen­er­al elec­tion, win­ning five seats and alter­ing the dynam­ics of right-wing pol­i­tics in the Unit­ed King­dom. Reform UK has also been increas­ing­ly asso­ci­at­ed with Euro­pean cur­rents of nation­al con­ser­vatism, shar­ing themes such as oppo­si­tion to supra­na­tion­al gov­er­nance, the defence of tra­di­tion­al cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty, and skep­ti­cism of lib­er­al internationalism.

Sources:
Reform UK – Wikipedia
The Guardian – Nigel Farage pledges to axe net zero as Reform UK launch­es pop­ulist manifesto
LSE Grantham Insti­tute – Has Nigel Farage qui­et­ly forced Reform UK to U‑turn on cli­mate change denial?