Some higher-profile figures have left the party, such as the former co-deputy leader Ben Habib and Howard Cox, the party’s 2024 London mayoral candidate, but others act as media outriders or have come to the fore.
Nigel Farage’s Reform party is being driven by a close-knit group of rightwing, male advisers, with the party chair, Zia Yusuf, at the helm and the treasurer, Nick Candy, raising money.
Ann Widdecombe, the former Conservative minister, and Andrea Jenkyns, the former Tory MP and now Reform’s mayoral candidate in Lincolnshire, are key figures.
Richard Tice The party’s deputy leader, Tice is still friendly with Farage despite having been replaced by him as leader last year, though insiders say the pair are not as close as they were.
Rael Braverman, the husband of the Conservative former home secretary Suella Braverman, recently joined Reform and was at the party’s fundraiser in Mayfair last month.
