Reclaim Party
Political party in the United Kingdom
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| 2024 | Four Conservative MPs (Andrea Jenkyns, Brendan Clarke-Smith, Marco Longhi, and Karl McCartney) accepted Reclaim's donation despite party advice against it. |
| 2024 | Reclaim Party announced a strategy to donate £5,000 to candidates from other parties who would agree to their four-point culture-based pledge for the general election. |
| 2024 | All four Conservative MPs who accepted Reclaim's donation and pledged to their culture commitment lost their seats in the general election. |
| 2024 | Reclaim Party endorsed Reform UK shortly before the general election. |
| December 2023 | Andrew Bridgen resigned from the Reclaim Party. |
| June 2023 | Laurence Fox, leader of the Reclaim Party, announced his intention to contest the Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election. He ultimately received 2.3% of the vote, finishing fourth and losing his electoral deposit. |
| June 12 2023 | Reclaim Party entered into a cooperation agreement with Reform UK, jointly participating in by-elections. They agreed to divide constituencies, with Reclaim standing in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, and Reform UK in Mid Bedfordshire. Both parties ultimately lost their deposits and failed to gain significant electoral support. |
| May 2023 | Andrew Bridgen joined the Reclaim Party, becoming its first Member of Parliament. |
| January 2023 | Andrew Bridgen was expelled from the Conservative Party for tweeting controversial COVID-19 vaccine claims and breaching lobbying rules. |
| August 2022 | Martin Daubney stepped down as deputy leader of the Reclaim Party after serving in the role since 2021. |
| 2021 | Jeremy Hosking provided over £1,000,000 in cash and services to The Reclaim Party during the first quarter of the year, becoming the major source of campaign funding. |
| 2021 | A Market Drayton town councillor defected to Reclaim, becoming the party's first representative in UK local government. |
| 2021 | Reclaim Party contested the Scottish Parliament election with Leo Kearse as their candidate in Glasgow Pollok, receiving 114 votes (0.3 percent) and finishing eighth on the constituency list. |
| 2021 | Martin Daubney, the Reclaim Party's deputy leader, ran as the party's candidate in the North Shropshire by-election, finishing seventh with 375 votes and losing his deposit. |
| 2021 | Laurence Fox ran in the London mayoral election, finishing sixth with 47,634 votes (1.9 percent) and losing his £10,000 election deposit. |
| December 2021 | Newspapers reported that Jeremy Hosking would continue to provide funding for The Reclaim Party. |
| March 2021 | Laurence Fox announced his candidacy for the London mayoral election, positioning himself to fight against 'extreme political correctness' and criticize the Metropolitan Police's approach to diversity and inclusivity. His campaign was endorsed by Reform UK and Nigel Farage. |
| February 2021 | The party officially changed its registered name from Brexit Express to The Reclaim Party. |
| 2020 | Laurence Fox launched the Reclaim Party as a right-wing populist political party in the United Kingdom, with all initial funding provided by a single donor, Jeremy Hosking. |
| October 2020 | The party leadership changed from Jeremy Hosking to Laurence Fox. It was discovered that the party name could not be registered due to a conflict with an existing charity. |
| September 2020 | Laurence Fox attracted funding for a new political party, initially called Reclaim and described as 'UKIP for culture'. |
| March 13 2019 | Jeremy Hosking first registered the party as Brexit Express with the Electoral Commission. |
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