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Summary
- Set up in 2019, the Brexit Party and Nigel Farage played a major part in campaign for Brexit
- Now, Farage plans to relaunch Brexit Party as Reform Party and will be working for only the defenceless
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage will rebrand the group ‘Reform UK’, a party working as an anti-lockdown party, primarily to fight against anti-coronavirus restrictions enforced by Boris Johnson and his party. The party has officially submitted its paper to the Electoral Commission, seeking to change the name of the party to Reform UK.
In an article, Farage and party chief Richard Tice, said that the new party will support ‘focused protection from the COVID-19 pandemic for only the most vulnerable’, and enable the rest of the population to develop a herd immunity system. The party is showing courage to tackle the vested interests in the pandemic situation and several areas of public life can be improved for the benefit of the people, Farage wrote.
They added that the party, which hopes to get benefit from the anti-lockdown effect, believes that the most important issue is the government's inadequate response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Highlighting the flaws in the Johnson government’s handling of the pandemic, the party said the government is trying to terrify the country and waiting pointlessly for the COVID-19 vaccination. The party feels vaccines are an inappropriate way to tackle the pandemic which has been existing for more than 6 months now.
Also, Fargae said that his party supports the Great Barrington Declaration, which was written by top scientists and is now backed by over 44,000 medical professionals and scientists. The letter suggests that seniors and vulnerable people should be kept in isolation, while the rest of the people can deal with the disease with the hope of attaining herd immunity.
The declaration has been slammed by many, such as Health Secretary Matt Hancock who said that it is unlikely that herd immunity can be attained by an adequate amount of people catching coronavirus.
Farage, who never won a seat as an MP, hopes that industries and businesses that are being hit hard due to the Covid-19, would pledge support to his party.
In the 2019 European Parliament elections, the Brexit Party won 29 seats, however, at the general elections, the party fought for 275 seats, but received only 2 per cent of votes without winning any seats.
Second national lockdown
PM Boris Johnson on Saturday announced a second nationwide lockdown for England after scientists warned that the Covid-19 pandemic was spreading faster than the predictions.
Johnson said strict action across the UK was ‘vital’ in curbing the rise in coronavirus cases. He urged people to stay inside homes as much as possible. The measures will be come into force from Thursday and will continue for next 2 December. Though schools, colleges and universities can remain open, different businesses like non-essential shops, gyms, Pubs, restaurants as well as places of worship will have to shut. After two months, the government may put regions back under the tier system.
According to government sources, as on Saturday nearly 21,915 new COVID-10 infected cases have been confirmed in the last 24 hours, taking the UK’s total since the beginning of the epidemic to 1,011,660. The UK’s death numbers from the COVID-19 disease is over 46,500, with 326 new deaths reported for the day.
