- Nigel Farage has agreed to become the leader of Reform UK and will stand as a candidate in the upcoming national assembly election on July 4th.
- He will also return as the leader of the right-wing populist party.
- Farage will be competing for a parliamentary seat in the Clacton constituency, where there was overwhelming support for Brexit during the 2016 referendum.
- The 60-year-old former UKIP leader was a prominent figure in the Brexit campaign and was famously doused in milkshake in 2019.
- He relaunched his Brexit party as Reform UK in November 2020 to oppose COVID-19 lockdowns, but retired from party politics the following year.
- A recent poll showed Reform UK with 10% support, compared to the Conservative Party’s 27% and Labour’s 44%.
- He previously had retired from politics after the 2016 EU referendum, but returned two years later with a reformed Brexit party.
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