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Former British MEP Nigel Farage announced on Monday wanting to change the name of the Brexit Party to UK Reform [Reform UK] and fight the Government’s national lockdown strategy to combat the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Confinements don’t work: in fact, Do more harm than good. But there is a reliable alternative, recommended by some of the best epidemiologists and doctors in the world, “he wrote this Monday in an article published in the Daily Telegraph, along with Richard Tice.
The announcement coincides with the decision of the British government to declare a four-week national confinement in England from Thursday to December 2 to try to reduce the increase in Covid-19 infections.
Farage invokes the “Great Barrington Declaration”, signed by some British scientists, which calls for greater protection for older people and people with health problems who may lead to complications if you contract coronaviruswhile the rest of society, especially the young, lives close to normal.
The rest of the population must, with good hygiene measures and a dose of common sense, move on. In this way, we build immunity in the population. The youths act as warriors, creating a protective shield. It is clear that multigenerational families will have to implement stricter measures ”.
The new party also intends to campaign for the restructuring of British institutions such as the House of Lords, the upper house of parliament, the BBC public broadcaster and the electoral system.
“Although we are attentive to Brexit, it is time to reorient our energies. That is why we ask the Electoral Commission to change the name of the party. We want to be known as the Reform party ”, writes the politician, who is credited part of the responsibility for the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU).
The UK left the EU on January 31, 2020 following a 2016 referendum in which 52% of voters voted to exit, and is in negotiations to define the future post-Brexit relationship.
On Sunday, the United Kingdom recorded 162 deaths and 23,254 new infections with Covid-19 in 24 hours, with 1,442 people admitted to hospitals due to complications resulting from the coronavirus.
With 46,717 officially registered deaths, the United Kingdom is the European country with the highest number of deaths from Covid-19 and the fifth worldwide, behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico.
The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 1.2 million deaths and more than 46.4 million cases of contagion worldwide, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 2,544 people died from 144,341 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
