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As largely expected, the Brexit Party failed to win any seats in the general election. [7] Among its results the best were in Barnsley Central, where Victoria Felton came second with 30.4% of the vote; [8] Hartlepool, where party chairman Richard Tice came third with 25.8% of the vote; [9] and Hull West and Hessle, where businesswoman and media ...
Reform UK is a right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Catherine Blaiklock with support from Nigel Farage in November 2018 as the Brexit Party, advocating hard Euroscepticism and a no-deal Brexit. It won the United Kingdom’s component of the 2019 European Parliament election, but failed to win any seats at ...
The Brexit Party was the largest party, gaining five more seats than UKIP achieved in 2014. Nigel Farage, as leader of UKIP in 2014 and the Brexit Party in 2019, became the first person to lead two different parties that topped a national election. The Brexit party came first in Wales and in eight of the nine English constituencies.
t. e. Nigel Paul Farage ( / ˈfærɑːʒ /; [c] born 3 April 1964) [3] is a British broadcaster and former politician who was Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) from 2006 to 2009 and 2010 to 2016 and Leader of the Brexit Party (renamed Reform UK in 2021) from 2019 to 2021. Farage is currently the Honorary President of Reform UK and a ...
Brexit (/ ˈ b r ɛ k s ɪ t, ˈ b r ɛ ɡ z ɪ t /; portmanteau of "British exit") was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU). Following a referendum on 23 June 2016, Brexit officially took place at 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2020 (00:00 1 February 2020 CET). The UK is the only sovereign country to have left the EU.
These are listed at 2019 United Kingdom general election. The Conservatives gained 54 from Labour, 3 from the Lib Dems and 1 from Speaker. They lost 1 to Labour, 2 to the Lib Dems, and 7 to the SNP, giving them a net gain of 48 seats. Labour lost the 54 as said but gained one, Putney, in direct reply, and lost 6 to the SNP and lost 1 to Speaker ...
e. Alyn Smith won a seat in the House of Commons for SNP in December 2019. He therefore ceased to be an MEP for Scotland then. Heather Anderson was nominated to replace him as MEP. Anderson only served as MEP from 28 January until the Brexit date on 31 January, a total of 4 days. Annunziata Rees-Mogg, Lance Forman, Lucy Harris and John ...
Libertarian Party (until 12 February 2019) Brexit Party EFDD (until 15 October 2014) NI (until 19 October 2014) EFDD. Jill Evans: Wales Plaid Cymru Greens–EFA: Nigel Farage: South East England UKIP (until 4 December 2018) Independent (until 11 February 2019) Brexit Party EFDD (until 15 October 2014) NI (until 19 October 2014) EFDD
The 2019 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 12 December 2019 with 47,074,800 registered voters [3] entitled to vote to elect members of the House of Commons. The Conservative Party won a landslide victory with a majority of 80 seats, [n 5] a net gain of 48, on 43.6% of the popular vote, the highest percentage for any party ...
Rupert James Graham Lowe (born 31 October 1957) is a British politician, farmer and businessman, who served as the Brexit Party Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the West Midlands constituency from 2019 to 2020.