Nigel Farage, leader of Reform United kingdom, throughout a information conference in London, Uk, on Monday, June 3, 2024.
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LONDON — British politician and media character Nigel Farage, very best known for foremost the Brexit campaign, announced Monday he would operate in the U.K.’s general election next month.
Farage experienced mentioned he would not stand as a parliamentary prospect for his Reform celebration in purchase to aim on supporting Donald Trump’s U.S. presidential campaign.
Farage previously led the Uk Independence Get together, which rose to prominence in the 2010s on a platform of quitting the European Union, reducing immigration and opposing multiculturalism.
However, the get together in no way succeeded in winning seats in basic elections, and Farage unsuccessful to come to be a member of parliament in spite of standing many periods.
He subsequently give up UKIP and fashioned the Brexit Bash. This later became the ideal-wing populist Reform Party underneath a new chief, whilst Farage stepped away from politics and targeted on media commentary.
Reform announced Monday that Farage would come to be its leader as effectively as standing to be an MP.
The social gathering is not anticipated to make sizeable electoral gains in the July 4 vote, but Farage’s arrival may shake up the campaign widely observed as a two-horse race involving the incumbent Conservative Get together led by Rishi Sunak, and the Labour Get together led by Keir Starmer.
Polls broadly propose Labour will return to electric power just after 14 decades.
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