Title: Reform UK - Wikipedia
Headings: Reform UK
Reform UK
Contents
History
Brexit Party
Transition into Reform UK
Representation
European Parliament
Senedd Cymru
Scottish Parliament
Policies and ideology
Funding and structure
Leaders
Elections
2019 European Parliament elections
House of Commons
Local government
See also
References
External links

Content: On 5 February 2019, it was registered with the United Kingdom Electoral Commission to run candidates in any English, Scottish, Welsh and European Union elections. On the day of the announcement, Nigel Farage, who had been an independent MEP since his departure from UKIP in early December 2018, said that the party was Blaiklock's idea, but that she had acted with his full support. In a 24 January 2019 interview, Blaiklock said: " I won't run it without Nigel [Farage], I'm a nobody and I haven't got any ego to say that I am an anybody", and that: " I'm happy to facilitate Nigel and do the donkey work and work for him, but I don't have any illusions as to myself". On 8 February 2019, Farage stated he would stand as a candidate for the party in any potential future European Parliament elections contested in the United Kingdom. MEPs Steven Woolfe and Nathan Gill, also formerly of UKIP, stated that they would also stand for the party. On 1 February 2019, Blaiklock told The Daily Telegraph the party had raised £ 1 million in donations, and that over 200 people had come forward offering to stand for the Brexit Party at the May 2019 European Parliament election, if the United Kingdom had not left the European Union by then. After announcing the party's formation, Blaiklock attracted criticism for Islamophobic comments on social media, made between 2017 and 2019. She resigned as party leader on 20 March 2019 over since-deleted anti-Islam messages on Twitter, including re-tweeting messages by far-right figures including Mark Collett, Tommy Robinson and Joe Walsh.