Posted on 03/30/2024 5:08:47 AM PDT by RandFan
Reform UK is looking to majorly influence the next general election, with leader Richard Tice saying the right-wing party will stand in every seat.
Mr Tice kicked off his campaign this year by saying he would be "pleased" if he could help "punish the utter failure of the Conservative Party" - while labelling a Labour win "Starmergeddon".
But who is the 59-year-old Reform UK leader and how has he ended up in this position?
Here's what you need to know about Mr Tice, who describes himself on his website as "a no-nonsense, can-do type of person who gets things done".
Mr Tice replaced Mr Farage when he stood down in 2021, saying Brexit had been his "life's work" and had taken over "the best part of three decades" but that it was time to step away.
It marked a meteoric rise in politics for Mr Tice, who officially left the Conservative Party and joined the Brexit Party as chairman in April 2019, having been a Tory member for much of his adult life.
He became a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Brexit Party just six weeks after he joined. Two years later he became leader of the party, now Reform UK, saying it was "an honour" to take over from Mr Farage.
He may not have been a household name before becoming leader, but Mr Tice was already a significant figure in the push for Brexit.
He was one of the founders of the Leave Means Leave campaign and co-founded the group Leave.EU with fellow businessman Arron Banks, who labelled the group the "Bad Boys of Brexit".
That group was fined £70,000 in 2018 for breaches of electoral law during the EU referendum campaign.
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If Farage came back he could put them over the top
The UK has a supposedly conservative party, and it’s even called “Conservative” — but apparently it’s a lot like our Republican Party. (Maybe CINO?)
The difference from the U.S. is that former Conservatives, dissatisfied with their party’s utter failure, have started a viable new party and are making big inroads.
We can only dream.
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