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The Brexit party has asked the Election Commission to change its name to Reform UK in an attempt to change the name of the party, which has no elected representatives, as a voice in the anti-lockdown movement.
Party leader Nigel Farage and president Richard Tice first announced the plan in a joint article in the Telegraph where they wrote that it was “time to redirect our energies.” The name change is subject to the approval of the commission.
The Brexit party won 2% of the vote in the 2019 general election, and none of the 275 candidates it ran for won a seat.
Before the December elections, Farage had announced that the party would change its name following the UK’s exit from the European Union and would focus on campaigning for changes to the electoral system.
In a statement Sunday announcing plans to change the party’s name, Farage said: “As we promised, we are closely monitoring the government’s trade negotiations with the EU, to ensure a proper Brexit. Further reform in many other areas is vital to the future of our nations as well. “
Tice added: “The need for major reform in the UK is clearer now than ever. A new approach is essential, so that the government works for the people, not for itself ”.
He said a new strategy was needed to fight the coronavirus so that “we learn to live with it, not hide out of fear.”
The idea of ending the Covid pandemic through herd immunity was recently denounced as “a dangerous fallacy not supported by scientific evidence,” by 80 researchers who wrote a warning letter in a major medical journal.
The Brexit party announcement comes as England prepares to enter a four-week nationwide lockdown on November 5, a decision that has angered some Tory MPs, with prominent advocates including Sir Graham Brady warning that it is likely that vote against the new restrictions.
MPs will vote on the second lockdown on Wednesday, as experts warn that the daily death toll could reach 4,000 by Christmas if swift action is not taken.
Announcing the decision Saturday night, Boris Johnson said that if nothing is done, the country will face a “death spike” worse than the first wave in April.
