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Nigel Farage has applied to change the Brexit Party's name to Reform UK alongside a pledge to deal with the government's ‘woeful’ coronavirus response.
On the same day that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is informing MPs that there is no alternative to his proposed second national lockdown, Farage said renewed lockdown would ‘result in more life-years lost than it hopes to save’ and argued that ‘building immunity’ would be more effective. The party leader also said there should be ‘focused protection’ from coronavirus for the vulnerable.
Farage set up the Brexit Party ahead of last year's European Parliament elections, winning 29 seats - the most of any UK party - in a move that he said that ‘rescued Brexit’ and ‘restored some confidence in democracy’.
Alongside party chairman Richard Time, Farage said it was time to ‘apply our energy and resources to the other pressing issues facing the nation’. He has applied to the Electoral Commission to rename the Brexit Party as Reform UK.
Farage has stood for election to Parliament seven times without success, most recently in 2019. The Brexit Party contested 275 seats but took only two per cent of votes in last year’s election and did not succeed in getting an MP into the House of Commons.
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