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Nigel Farage has named his shadow cabinet and appointed Robert Jenrick as his shadow chancellor in an attempt to make the party more than a “one-man band” before May’s local elections.
The Reform leader unveiled four Reform figures for the “great offices of state” at a press conference in London.
Farage on Monday said he believed it was time to move away from the “potential criticism” that the party was just about him. Jenrick, a former minister, who defected to the party in January will be Farage’s economic spokesperson and will take charge of the Treasury if Reform win the next general election.
Zia Yusuf, Reform’s head of policy, was announced as the party’s shadow home secretary. He promised to stop the Channel crossings and derogate from any international treaty which frustrates or upends deportations.
Farage announced that Richard Tice will be deputy prime minister and secretary for business, trade and energy.
Suella Braverman was appointed Reform UK’s new shadow secretary of state for education and skills, completing his shadow cabinet appointments. Braverman will also be tasked on taking on the “world of DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion]” in her new brief. Lee Anderson, who was the first Tory MP to defect to Reform, will remain as the party’s chief whip.
Reform MPs Danny Kruger, Andrew Rosindell, Sarah Pochin are yet to receive official roles.
