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Farage said that 'to see numbers like that coming forward is quite astonishing'" data-test="article-body-image-source" width="2464" height="1542"/> </picture> <button class="e-caption-trigger " aria-label="Open caption" data-aria-open="Open caption" data-aria-close="Close caption" data-js="caption-trigger" data-test="caption-trigger"> <svg class="e-caption-trigger__icon" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 20 20"> <path d="M9.375 15V8.75H10.625V15H9.375ZM8.75 6.25L10 5L11.25 6.25L10 7.5L8.75 6.25Z"/> <path d="M10 1.25C12.3125 1.25 14.5625 2.1875 16.1875 3.8125C17.8125 5.4375 18.75 7.6875 18.75 10C18.75 12.3125 17.8125 14.5625 16.1875 16.1875C14.5625 17.8125 12.3125 18.75 10 18.75C7.6875 18.75 5.4375 17.8125 3.8125 16.1875C2.1875 14.5625 1.25 12.3125 1.25 10C1.25 7.6875 2.1875 5.4375 3.8125 3.8125C5.4375 2.1875 7.6875 1.25 10 1.25ZM10 0C4.5 0 0 4.5 0 10C0 15.5 4.5 20 10 20C15.5 20 20 15.5 20 10C20 4.5 15.5 0 10 0Z"/> </svg> </button> </div> <figcaption class="e-caption u-meta e-caption--has-separator e-caption--hide-small-screens " data-js="caption"> <span itemprop="caption" data-test="caption"> Nigel Farage said that 'to see numbers like that coming forward is quite astonishing' </span> <span class="e-caption__credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" data-test="credit"> <span class="e-caption__credit-description">Credit</span>: Lindsey Parnaby/AFP </span> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="grid-col grid-col-12 article__layout article__layout--content "> <div itemprop="articleBody" data-js="article-body"> <div class="articleBodyText section"> <div class="component article-body-text " data-test="article-body-text"> <p style="">Nigel Farage's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211009105153/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/11/01/exclusive-nigel-farage-relaunch-brexit-party-reform-uk-new-anti/" style="">new political party</a> already has more than 3,000 applicants to stand as candidates in May's local elections, in a move which will alarm Conservatives.</p> <p style="">Reform UK, renamed from the Brexit Party, has been inundated with supporters offering to stand as candidates in the elections to the Welsh and Scottish parliaments, and the English local elections, in the 11 days <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211009105153/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/11/01/exclusive-nigel-farage-relaunch-brexit-party-reform-uk-new-anti/">since it was set up</a>.</p> <p style="">Mr Farage and Richard Tice, the party's chairman, are also planning to stand candidates for police and crime commissioners in the elections.</p> <p style="">The anti-<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211009105153/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-covid-lockdown-england-hairdressers-gyms-shops/" style="">lockdown</a>, low tax, pro-growth political party will target the local, regional and mayoral elections on a policy platform that will be presented to voters in a bid to attract disaffected Tory supporters in the same way that the UK Independence Party sapped Conservative support at the polls.</p> <p style="">One party source said: "We are going to be standing in London Assembly, Scotland, Wales, all of the police and crime commissioners, a big focus on law and order. There are 5,000 local council seats up for grabs, and we are going to be targeting as many of those as possible."</p> <p>The candidates are being asked to pay up to £50 to the party to cover a vetting fee.</p> <p style="">Mr Farage said that "threats to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211009105153/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tax/capital-gains/increase-capital-gains-tax-hit-three-times-many-people-government/">capital gains tax</a>, the massive increase in the power of the state, government by diktat and a lockdown policy based on a dodgy dossier" <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211009105153/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/01/relaunching-brexit-party-fight-cruel-unnecessary-lockdown/" style="">could all drive support towards his relaunched party</a>.</p> <p style="">"For something that is quite embryonic in concept, to see numbers like that coming forward is quite astonishing," he added. "In the past, as Ukip and the Brexit Party, we always took more Labour votes than people realised. But in this current set of circumstances there are millions of Conservative voters who are shaking their heads and saying to themselves: 'This is not a Conservative party.'"</p> </div> </div> <div class="html-embed section" data-test="html-embed"> <span></span> <aside id="d2073c3b-4b5f-4e13-b884-9c056d8156b9" data-data-uri="https://particle-api.eip.telegraph.co.uk/v2/particles/d2073c3b-4b5f-4e13-b884-9c056d8156b9" data-html-uri="https://cf-particle-html.eip.telegraph.co.uk/d2073c3b-4b5f-4e13-b884-9c056d8156b9.html" class="tmg-particle embed" data-reg-required="false" data-reg-redirect="" data-sub-required="false" data-sub-redirect="" data-widget-type="embed" data-widget-title="Would you vote for Reform UK? " data-widget-size="responsive" data-widget-static="false" data-expandable="false" data-embeddable="true"><a title="Would you vote for Reform UK? 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In the middle of 2018, he had been in talks with the Conservatives about being their candidate for the 2020 election, which was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211009105153/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/03/13/politics-latest-news-boris-johnson-budget-public-health-coronavirus/">postponed because of the Covid pandemic</a>.</p> <p style="">Mr Tice told The Telegraph: "Registered supporter numbers have been growing in their thousands, and we are talking to significant former Tory donors. We are a force that is to be reckoned with next year, and what is extraordinary is the number of people who voted Conservative at the last election and are now saying: 'Never again.'</p> <p style="">"The party is set to stand on an agenda of cutting taxes to turbocharge growth. We are going to be standing on a big bold agenda of reform that is essential in so many areas of public life. We are looking way beyond lockdown. We have to reform the way we recover.</p> <p style="">"We are going to be a high growth party by cutting taxes, cutting huge government waste and cutting daft regulations. We have to grow our way out of this crisis, not tax our way to Tory austerity."</p> <p style="">Mr Tice and Mr Farage applied to the Electoral Commission to change the name of the Brexit Party to Reform UK earlier this month . 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