Brexit Party
Name Constituency First elected Joined
Diane James South East England 1 July 2014 5 February 2019 ( 2019-02-05 )
David Coburn Scotland 1 July 2014 12 February 2019 ( 2019-02-12 )
Nigel Farage South East England 10 June 1999 12 February 2019 ( 2019-02-12 )
Nathan Gill Wales 1 July 2014 12 February 2019 ( 2019-02-12 )
Julia Reid South West England 1 July 2014 12 February 2019 ( 2019-02-12 )
Tim Aker East of England 1 July 2014 13 February 2019 ( 2019-02-13 )
Jonathan Bullock East Midlands 28 July 2017 13 February 2019 ( 2019-02-13 )
Bill Etheridge West Midlands 1 July 2014 13 February 2019 ( 2019-02-13 )
Paul Nuttall North West England 14 July 2009 15 February 2019 ( 2019-02-15 )
Jill Seymour West Midlands 1 July 2014 15 April 2019 ( 2019-04-15 )
Jane Collins Yorkshire and the Humber 1 July 2014 15 April 2019 ( 2019-04-15 )
Margot Parker East Midlands 1 July 2014 15 April 2019 ( 2019-04-15 )
Jonathan Arnott North East England 1 July 2014 17 April 2019 ( 2019-04-17 )
Ray Finch South East England 1 July 2014 17 April 2019 ( 2019-04-17 )
Representation -- European Parliament
In mid-April 2019 , Jane Collins , Ray Finch , Jill Seymour , and Margot Parker left UKIP to join the Brexit Party . [ 34 ] [ 35 ] Jonathan Arnott , who had resigned from UKIP three months earlier , also joined the party then , thus bringing the total number of Brexit Party MEPs to 14 , being 14 of the 24 who had been elected as UKIP MEPs in 2014 . They all sat in the EFDD group . [ 34 ] On the deadline to nominate candidates for the May 2019 European Parliament election , it was announced that only three of the incumbent MEPs who joined the party – Farage , Gill and Bullock – had been selected to stand for the Brexit Party . [ 36 ]
The Brexit Party is a Eurosceptic political party in the United Kingdom. It became an active party in January 2019, and is currently led by Nigel Farage. It has 25 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and four Welsh Assembly Members. Their first major electoral success was winning the largest share of the national vote in the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, four months after foundation. The party's priority is for Britain to withdraw from the European Union (EU) and to move to World Trade Organisation trading rules if a free trade agreement cannot be agreed, which it describes as a clean-break Brexit. Generally described as populist, it draws its support from those who are frustrated with the delayed implementation of the 2016 referendum decision and wish to leave the EU without remaining part of the EU's Single Market or Customs Union. Many of its supporters were formerly of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) - Farage having led UKIP from 2006 to 2009 and from 2010 to 2016 - as well as from the Conservative Party, including high-profile defectors such as Ann Widdecombe and Annunziata Rees-Mogg. There have also been some endorsements from left-wing supporters of Brexit, such as former Labour Party and Respect Party MP George Galloway and several former members of the Revolutionary Communist Party. The party styles itself as being focused on the restoration of Britain's democratic sovereignty. On contesting the 2019 European Parliament election, it became the largest party by number of seats. Farage offered an electoral pact to the Conservative Party for the 2019 general election, and although this was turned down, the party decided not to stand candidates in constituencies won by Conservative candidates in the previous election. Farage, appearing on the BBCs coverage of the 2019 general election suggested that after Brexit has been completed, the Brexit Party will be renamed the Reform Party.