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Constituencies which the Brexit Party contested at the election. In April 2019, party leader Nigel Farage said the Brexit Party intended to stand candidates at the next general election. [3] The same month, he promised not to stand candidates against the 28 Eurosceptic Conservative MPs who opposed the Brexit withdrawal agreement in Parliament. [4]
Nigel Farage with then U.S. President Donald Trump in 2019. Nigel Farage is a British politician and broadcaster who has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Clacton and the Leader of Reform UK since 2024, having previously been its leader from 2019 to 2021 when it was called the Brexit Party.
Tim Wilson (born 12 May 1961) is an English academic, animator, media and YouTube personality, political analyst and former politician. [1]He is best known for winning the Viewer's Champion vote and finishing in third place in the second series of the Channel 4 series, The Circle, in 2019.
Nigel Farage, the “architect” of Brexit and a perennially disruptive force in British politics, has announced his intention to stand as a candidate for the hard-right Reform UK party in the ...
Britain's five-week election campaign officially began Wednesday, when Parliament was dissolved ahead of the Dec. 12 vote. Brexit day was supposed to be Oct. 31, but with Britain's politicians ...
At the last general election in 2019, Farage's party decided not to contest seats held by the Conservatives, then led by Boris Johnson, to avoid splitting the pro-Brexit vote.
General elections in the United Kingdom are organised using first-past-the-post voting. The Conservative Party, which won a majority at the 2019 general election, included pledges in its manifesto to remove the 15-year limit on voting for British citizens living abroad, and to introduce a voter identification requirement in Great Britain. [86]
Brexit was the central issue of the election campaign; [7] arguments were made that it was a proxy for a second Brexit referendum. [8] [9] The election was won by the Brexit Party, which won the most votes and became the largest single national party in the European Parliament, being the dominant choice of those who had voted to leave the ...