RUK External Problems

The far-right in the UK is becoming more divided which will likely reduce the number of seats RUK will win at the next general election.

• Defections to Advance UK – in Doncaster and Derbyshire, Reform UK strongholds, councillors have been leaving Reform UK and joining Advance UK. This is a newer, more extreme anti-rights and anti-immigration party led by one of Farage’s former close colleagues, Ben Habib.
• Restore Britain splitting the RUK vote – Rupert Lowe has launched a new party, Restore Britain, aiming to challenge Nigel Farage and Reform UK from the right. Though small and mostly online, it promotes a harder-line nationalist agenda. While unlikely to win many seats, its main impact could be splitting the right-wing vote, potentially weakening Reform. Lowe’s effort, driven partly by personal grievances after leaving Reform, may indirectly benefit Conservatives by dividing Farage’s support base. Read about Restore Britains’ extreme supporters here.
• Reform UK have said they will have nothing to do with a major far-right CPAC conference taking place in July in Britain because Liz Truss is organising it.