{"id":137860,"date":"2024-09-19T10:55:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T10:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/19\/im-giving-up-ownership-of-reform-uk-says-nigel-farage\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T10:55:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T10:55:59","slug":"im-giving-up-ownership-of-reform-uk-says-nigel-farage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/19\/im-giving-up-ownership-of-reform-uk-says-nigel-farage\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m giving up ownership of Reform UK, says Nigel Farage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has revealed he is giving up ownership of the party ahead of its conference this weekend.<\/p>\n

Unlike most political parties, Reform was established as a private limited company,<\/a> with Farage holding the majority of shares. <\/p>\n

He said this was done to fast-track the creation of the Brexit Party, now Reform UK, in time for its victory in the 2019 European elections.<\/p>\n

The company structure also allowed him to “to stop the party being hijacked by bad people,” he told the BBC.<\/p>\n

The Clacton MP will continue to be Reform UK’s leader but said: “I no longer need to be in control of Reform so I’m surrendering all of my shares.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Two months after getting its first MPs elected, the party is planning a major overhaul of how it is run at its Birmingham conference, with Farage claiming he was “giving ownership of the party and the big decisions over to the members”.<\/p>\n

For the first time, members will be able to vote on policy motions, including to adopt a new constitution, which sets out party rules and the responsibilities of the leadership.<\/p>\n

Reform won 14% of the vote at July’s general election<\/a> and has a foothold in Parliament with five MPs, including Farage.<\/p>\n

Farage announced he was returning as leader during the campaign – something he would have been unable do in a party with a more conventional structure, where leaders tend to be elected by members.<\/p>\n

Under the proposed new Reform UK constitution, members will be able to remove Farage – or any other party leader – in a no-confidence vote. <\/p>\n

A vote can be triggered if 50% of all members write to the chairman requesting a motion of no confidence.<\/p>\n

Reform MPs can also force a vote if 50 of them, or 50% of them, write to the chairman requesting one. But this only applies if there are more than 100 Reform MPs in Parliament – a high bar.<\/p>\n

Zia Yusuf, the chairman of Reform UK,<\/a> claimed the party\u2019s membership had jumped by 15,000 since its general election result.<\/p>\n

He told the BBC a \u201csurge\u201d had increased the membership to more than 80,000, as the party attempts to build a base of dedicated activists.<\/p>\n

He said he \u201cwouldn\u2019t be surprised\u201d if the number of Reform members overtook the Conservative Party in the coming months.<\/p>\n

Yusuf, a millionaire former banker who was appointed chairman in July, said there had been \u201chuge enthusiasm\u201d for the party since the general election.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what we need to do now is build the infrastructure at grassroots level so that enthusiasm can be converted at the ballot box.”<\/p>\n

The Conservative Party does not publish its membership figures. But in the most recent Tory leadership contest of 2021, more than 140,000 members voted in an election with a 82% turnout.<\/p>\n

Attracting new members is part of Reform\u2019s plan to develop a more formidable party and campaigning machinery to match its political rivals.<\/p>\n

Yusuf is leading the process of setting up hundreds of local Reform branches across the UK and growing its pool of activists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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