The Alan Partridge actor says Nigel Farage’s party are ‘anti-human rights because they think it’s some red tape bureaucracy’

Reform UK has grown from a fringe euroskeptic movement into a major force in British politics. By railing against immigration and the rising cost of living, the party led by Brexit figurehead Nigel Farage has siphoned support from the governing Labour party and Conservative opposition to fracture the old two-party system.

Reform UK has plummeted in recent voting intention polls despite a defection deluge over recent weeks. The only way seemed up for Nigel Farage and Reform after former Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick announced his defection to the party in the most astonishing circumstances.

Nigel Farage will appear alongside Robert Jenrick at a Reform UK rally in his constituency tonight. The event in Newark, which is due to kick off at 6pm, comes after the former senior Tory's bombshell defection to the insurgent party last week.

Nigel Farage is preparing to unveil a former Labour MP as Reform UK's latest high-profile defector, intensifying pressure on both Keir Starmer and the Conservatives as the insurgent party surges in the polls and redraws Westminster's political fault lines.

Conservative MPs are continuing to jump ship to Reform UK, with Andrew Rosindell and Robert Jenrick defecting in the span of a week.

Reform UK voters are the most likely group to believe that Great Britain is "fundamentally broken," according to new polling.

A senior politician from the UK's main opposition Conservative party, Robert Jenrick, joined the hard-right Reform UK party on Thursday, its leader Nigel Farage said.Farage said he would "buy Kemi lunch next week" as he confirmed Jenrick was joining Reform at a press conference in London.