Reclaim Party
The Reclaim Party, formerly known as Brexit Express, is a right-wing populist and far-right political party in the United Kingdom. It was launched in 2020 by English political activist and actor Laurence Fox, with all of its funding from a single donor, Jeremy Hosking. It does not solicit donations nor charge membership fees. The party has had one MP, Andrew Bridgen for North West Leicestershire, who was an MP for the Conservative Party from 2010, until his expulsion in April 2023, having had the whip suspended in January after criticising the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and saying that a cardiologist told him they constitute "the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust".
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