Title: Who are the Reclaim, Heritage and Reform UK Parties Challenging Boris?
Headings: Who are the Reclaim, Heritage and Reform UK Parties Challenging Boris?
Who are the Reclaim, Heritage and Reform UK Parties Challenging Boris?
Three new parties (Reclaim, Reform UK and Heritage) have formed to challenge the Conservative Government and other mainstream parties on their perceived failings, on areas ranging from lockdown to British culture.

Content: David Kurten, Member of the London Assembly, image extracted and cropped from London Assembly Annual Report, licenced with CC Attribution Licence CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia
The Heritage Party plans to stand in the next London Mayoral and Assembly elections, as well as the local elections taking place in May.
Although there is a lot of disaffection with Boris and the Conservative Party, as well as the other mainstream parties, all these parties have problems they will need to overcome. Firstly, the UK electoral system favours large, established parties that have a number of large financial donors and historical electoral success. The parties also have narrow appeal/aims; none of them are talking about issues such as housing, transport or taxation policies. A number of people have suggested that two or three of the parties merge to give them a better chance of challenging the establishment. Although this would indeed focus the party’s energy and voters would not be so conflicted over who to vote for, it could lead to disputes over party branding and leadership.