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Nigel Farage seeks to relaunch his political career by renaming the Brexit Party as an anti-blockade party.
The party has formally requested the Election Commission to change its name to Reform UK and will campaign against measures against the coronavirus.
In announcing the party’s new goals, Farage, who has led UKIP on several occasions, and Richard Tice, chairman of the Brexit Party, said it will address several “powerful vested interests.”
These include “the House of Lords, the BBC, the way we vote, law and order, immigration.” The couple also claim that “mismanaged and wasteful quangos abound.”
But the party, which hopes to capitalize on anti-lockdown sentiment, believes the most pertinent issue is “the government’s regrettable response to the coronavirus.”
The announcement follows another day of Covid news yesterday in which:
- Some 23,254 cases were reported yesterday, 17.5% more than the 19,790 cases seen last Sunday;
- Another 162 people died after testing positive for coronavirus in Britain yesterday, in the biggest Sunday increase seen since May;
- Prince William revealed that he was secretly diagnosed with coronavirus in April;
- Britain staggered after Boris Johnson announced a four-week shutdown on Saturday;
- The new restrictions will shut down all nonessential pubs, restaurants and shops;
- People can only leave their homes for specific reasons, such as shopping essentials, exercising outside, and working if they cannot work from home;
- Former chief scientific adviser Sir Mark Walport said there is a “possibility” that the restrictions should remain in place for more than four weeks.
Nigel Farage (pictured) seeks to relaunch his political career by renaming the Brexit Party as an anti-blockade party.
The announcement will make Boris Johnson’s life more difficult as he seeks to calm his restless MPs who oppose the new measures.
Protesters gather in Birmingham to demonstrate against a second lockdown on Saturday
He claims the government tried to “terrorize the nation into submitting” while waiting for a vaccine that, it says, “is not a way to tackle a disease that can be around for a long time.”
The party, led by Farage, supports the Great Barrington Declaration, which was drafted by three top scientists and now has the backing of more than 44,000 doctors and scientists.
The letter calls for an isolation of only the elderly and vulnerable so that the rest of the population can contract the virus in the hope of achieving herd immunity.
The statement has been widely criticized, with Health Secretary Matt Hancock asserting that it is “ not true ” that sufficient numbers of people who contract the coronavirus can achieve herd immunity.
The announcement will make Boris Johnson’s life more difficult as he seeks to calm his restless MPs who oppose the new measures.
In a joint article for The Daily Telegraph, Mr Farage, who has led UKIP on several occasions, and Mr Tice said: “Closed closures do not work: in fact they do more harm than good.”
Some 23,254 cases were reported on Sunday, 17.5% more than the 19,790 cases seen last Sunday.
Another 162 people died after testing positive for coronavirus in Britain on Sunday, in the biggest Sunday increase seen since May.
In announcing the party’s new goals, Farage, who has led UKIP on several occasions, and Richard Tice (pictured), the chairman of the Brexit Party, said it will address several “ powerful vested interests. ”
They said the new party would support a policy of ‘targeted protection’ against the virus for the most vulnerable, adding: ‘The rest of the population should, with good hygiene measures and a dose of common sense, get on with life.’ .
Mr Farage added: ‘We think there is a huge political hole right now. The crisis has shown how badly governed we are. Brexit is the beginning of what we need. Brexit gives us self-government; now we need to have good self-government. ‘
The new party hopes to present a list of candidates in the May council elections, when the Conservatives are contesting thousands of seats in the county.
Farage’s previous political campaigns with Ukip and the Brexit Party cut off the Conservative vote and his latest venture is likely to worry some Tory MPs.
Farage’s previous political campaigns (pictured) with Ukip and the Brexit Party lowered the Tory vote and his latest venture is likely to worry some Tory MPs.
The Brexit Party won 29 seats in last year’s European Parliament elections, held just ten weeks after its creation. In the general elections 275 seats were contested, but he obtained only 2% of the votes and did not obtain any seats.
Farage, who has never won an MP seat, hopes that companies affected by the lockdown measures will commit to supporting UK reform, including those in the hotel industry, alongside the self-employed.
Hundreds of thousands of pounds have already been pledged for the party using the new badge.
A spokesperson for the Election Commission said that if the name change request contains all the information required by law, it will be posted online for public comment.
