List of Reform UK politicians

This is a list of Reform UK politicians. Most politicians have defected from other parties and some have left Reform UK since joining.

Members of Parliament

Main article: List of Reform UK MPs

Former Members of Parliament

• Lucy Allan, former Conservative MP ^[1]
• Alan Amos, former Conservative MP
• Sarah Atherton, former Conservative MP ^[2]
• Jake Berry, former Conservative MP
• Michael Brown, former Conservative MP
• Aidan Burley, former Conservative MP
• Chris Butler, former Conservative MP
• Douglas Carswell, former UK Independence Party MP
• Maria Caulfield, former Conservative MP
• Simon Danczuk, former Labour MP
• Nadine Dorries, former Conservative MP
• Adam Holloway, former Conservative MP
• Andrea Jenkyns, former Conservative MP
• David Jones, former Conservative MP ^[3]
• Marco Longhi, former Conservative MP
• Anne Marie Morris, former Conservative MP
• Lembit Öpik ^{[ citation needed ]}, former Liberal Democrat MP
• Henry Smith, former Conservative MP
• Mark Reckless, former UK Independence Party MP
• Ross Thomson, former Conservative MP
• Ann Widdecombe, former Conservative MP ^[4]

Members of the Scottish Parliament

• Graham Simpson ^[5]

Members of the Senedd

• Laura Anne Jones ^[6]

Former Members of the Senedd

• Caroline Jones ^[7]
• Mandy Jones
• Mark Reckless
• David Rowlands

Members of the London Assembly

• Alex Wilson ^[8]
• Keith Prince ^[9]

Metro mayors

• Luke Campbell ^[10]
• Andrea Jenkyns ^[1]

Police and crime commissioners

• Rupert Matthews ^[11]

Notable Councillors

Name	Former Party	Councillor	Ref.
Darren Grimes	Conservative	Durham County Council	[12]
George Finch	Conservative	Warwickshire County Council	[13]
Linden Kemkaran	Conservative	Kent County Council	[14]
Thomas Kerr	Scottish Conservatives	Glasgow City Council	[15]
Joseph Boam	Conservative	Leicestershire County Council	[16]

Former Reform UK politicians

• Michelle Ballantyne (until 2025) ^[17]
• Catherine Blaiklock (until 2019). ^[18]
• Nick Buckley (until 2025) ^[19]
• David Coburn (until 2019) ^[20]
• Howard Cox (until 2025) ^[21]
• Martin Daubney (until 2021 or earlier) ^[22]
• Bill Etheridge (until 2020) ^[23]
• Lance Forman (until 2019) ^[24]
• Claire Fox (until 2020) ^[25]
• Nathan Gill (until 2021) ^[26]
• Ben Habib (until 2024) ^[27]
• Lucy Harris (until 2019) ^[28]
• Andrew England Kerr (until 2019) ^[29]
• John Longworth (until 2019) ^[30]
• Rupert Lowe (until 2025) ^[31]
• James McMurdock (until 2025) ^[32]
• Annunziata Rees-Mogg (until 2019) ^[33]
• Louis Stedman-Bryce (until 2019) ^[34]
• James Wells (until 2021) ^[35]

References

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5. "Conservative MSP Graham Simpson defects to Reform". BBC News. 2025-08-27. Retrieved 2025-08-28.
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