Nigel Paul 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. He also was the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009,and 2010 to 2016. Farage served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 until the UK's withdrawal from the European Union (EU) in 2020. He owns the majority of shares in the company that controls the party,Reform UK Limited.
Daniel John Hannan,Baron Hannan of Kingsclere is a British writer,journalist and politician. A member of the Conservative Party,he was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 to 2020. He is currently a sitting member of the House of Lords where he takes the Conservative whip,and has since 2020 served as an adviser to the Board of Trade. He is the founding president of the Initiative for Free Trade.
Alyn Edward Smith is a Scottish politician. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP),he served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stirling from 2019 until 2024 when he unsuccessfully stood for the Stirling and Strathallan seat. He also served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Scotland from 2004 to 2019. He has been serving as SNP Spokesperson for Europe and EU Accession since December 2022.
Brian Monteith is a British politician,public relations consultant and commentator. As a member of the Scottish Conservatives,he was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Mid Scotland and Fife region from 1999 to 2007. Later a member of the Brexit Party,he was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North East England from 2019 to 2020.
The British Chambers of Commerce is the national representative body of 53 chambers of commerce across the UK. The chambers represent 50,000 businesses,which the BCC claims employs 6 million people.
On 23 June 2016,a referendum took place in the United Kingdom (UK) and Gibraltar to ask the electorate whether the country should remain a member of,or leave,the European Union (EU). The result was to leave,triggering calls to begin the process of the country's withdrawal from the EU commonly termed "Brexit".
Brexit was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU). Following a referendum held on 23 June 2016,Brexit officially took place at 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2020. The UK is the only sovereign country to have withdrawn from the EU. The UK had been a member state of the EU or its predecessor,the European Communities (EC),since 1 January 1973. Following Brexit,EU law and the Court of Justice of the European Union no longer have primacy over British laws. The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 retains relevant EU law as domestic law,which the UK can amend or repeal.
Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy was a Eurosceptic and populist political group in the European Parliament. The EFDD group was a continuation for the Eighth European Parliament of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) group that existed during the Seventh European Parliament,with significant changes to group membership.
The 2019 European Parliament election was the United Kingdom's component of the 2019 European Parliament election. It was held on Thursday 23 May 2019 and the results announced on Sunday 26 and Monday 27 May 2019,after all the other EU countries had voted. This was the United Kingdom's final participation in a European Parliament election before leaving the European Union on 31 January 2020,and was also the last election to be held under the provisions of the European Parliamentary Elections Act 2002 before its repeal under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and was the first European election in the United Kingdom to be held on a day that did not coincide with any local elections since 1999. This was the first of two national elections that would be held in the United Kingdom in 2019 with the 2019 general election being held six months later in December 2019.
Vote Leave was a campaigning organisation that supported a "Leave" vote in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. On 13 April 2016 it was designated by the Electoral Commission as the official campaign in favour of leaving the European Union in the Referendum.
Leave.EU was a political campaign group that was first established to support the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union in the June 2016 referendum. Founded in July 2015 as The Know,the campaign was relaunched in September of that year with its name changed to "Leave.eu" to reflect altered wording in the referendum question.
A number of politicians,public figures,newspapers and magazines,businesses and other organisations endorsed either the United Kingdom remaining in the EU or the United Kingdom leaving the EU during the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.
Richard James Sunley Tice is a British businessman and politician who has been the member of parliament (MP) for Boston and Skegness and deputy leader of Reform UK since 2024,having previously been as the chairman of the party from 2019 to 2021 and again briefly in 2024. He holds five shares in the company that controls the party,the Reform UK Party Limited. Since 2023,he has also been Reform UK's energy and foreign policy spokesman. He became the leader of Reform UK in March 2021,but stood down in June 2024 and was succeeded by Nigel Farage.
Leave Means Leave was a pro-Brexit,Eurosceptic political pressure group organisation that campaigned and lobbied for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union following the 'Leave' result of the EU referendum on 23 June 2016. The campaign was co-chaired by British property entrepreneur Richard Tice and business consultant John Longworth. The vice-chairman was Leader of the Brexit Party,Nigel Farage.
Reform UK is a right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. Nigel Farage has served as the party's leader since June 2024 and Richard Tice has served as the party's deputy leader since July 2024. The Party currently has five Members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons and one member of the London Assembly. Following Farage's resumption as leader during the 2024 general election,there was a sharp increase in support for the party. In the election it was the third largest party by popular vote,with 14.3% of the vote share. The party is structured as a limited company,with Farage as the majority shareholder with fifteen shares. Farage owns eight of these,giving him a controlling majority. The other shareholders are Tice,who holds five,and Chief Executive Paul Oakden and Party Treasurer Mehrtash A'Zami who each hold one share.
A referendum on the Brexit withdrawal agreement,also referred to as a "second referendum",a "rerun",a "people's vote",or a "confirmatory public vote",was proposed by a number of politicians and pressure groups as a way to break the deadlock during the 2017–19 Parliament surrounding the meaningful vote on the Brexit deal.
Lance Philip Anisfeld,known professionally as Lance Philip Forman,is a British politician and businessman,who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London between 2 July 2019 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU.
Benyamin Naeem Habib is a British-Pakistani politician,who served from 2023 to July 2024 as Co-Deputy Leader of Reform UK,alongside David Bull. He and Bull were removed from their position and replaced by Richard Tice as the new Deputy Leader following the 2024 General Election He was elected as a Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the 2019 European parliamentary election. He remained in the role until the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU.
Lucy Elizabeth Harris is a British Conservative Party politician and advisor. She was elected as a Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Yorkshire and the Humber constituency in the 2019 European parliamentary election. She held this role until the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU. Prior to her political career,she worked in publishing as a corporate communications executive for The Quarto Group,and later the Greater London Authority.
