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After the UK left the EU on January 31, 2020, it was proposed that the Brexit Party change their name. In October 2020, Farage had applied to the Electoral Commission to rebrand the Brexit Party as ''Reform UK''. He stated the party would now campaign on opposing [[COVID-19]] restrictions.
After the UK left the EU on January 31, 2020, it was proposed that the Brexit Party change their name. In October 2020, Farage had applied to the Electoral Commission to rebrand the Brexit Party as ''Reform UK''. He stated the party would now campaign on opposing [[COVID-19]] restrictions.
Farage stood down as leader in 2021 and he was replaced by [[Richard Tice]].
The party gained its first member of the UK Parliament in early 2024, when the Euroskeptic [[Lee Anderson]] of Ashfield in Nottinghamshire defected from the Tories.
Nigel Farage made a surprise return as party leader in early June 2024, with him also announcing that he was standing for Parliament in the constituency of Clacton in Essex. One of the most Brexit-supporting constituencies in the UK, the Tories won more than 70% of the vote in Clacton in 2019, and is also one of the few constituencies in the UK to have been represented by UKIP, with Douglas Carswell holding the seat between 2014 and 2017.
==Political positions==
==Political positions==