Dear Supporter,

At the start of this most recent national lockdown, we wrote to tell you about our application to the Electoral Commission for consent to change the name of our party from The Brexit Party to Reform UK. In that same email, we invited you to register your details, if you were interested in standing for Reform UK in elections next May.

Since writing to you, the scale of the Tory mismanagement of the Covid crisis has become even more indefensible. We have a Prime Minister who has allowed himself, for a second time, to be bounced into a devastating lockdown by dodgy, out of date data. Thousands of businesses destroyed, people dying at home in excess numbers and the damage to our economy almost incalculable; all this whilst friends of the Government, friends of ministers and cabinet ministers are making millions from our misery.

This week the Government had a chance to salvage something from the disastrous way in which they’ve handled Covid in 2020. Instead, they effectively cancelled Christmas for millions of people around the country in the form of a rebranded lockdown.