The hunt is on for celebrities willing to stand for Reform at the next general election, with Nigel Farage said to believe that recognition factor will help his party overcome their lack of a well- established ground game to get the vote out. Party chair David Bull is a cert, his experience with terrifying ghouls on TV’s Most Haunted making him a natural choice to work alongside Farage and Richard Tice. The former GB News presenter Darren Grimes, now deputy leader of Durham County Council, is in line for a seat too.
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More familiar names in the running are Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson
and former BBC Radio 6 Music DJ Liz Kershaw, who were pictured together at a Women For Reform meeting in Essex last week. But another attendee at the event will not make it to Westminster.
Lucy Connolly, bizarrely feted by the party despite having been jailed for 31
months after encouraging her social media followers to set asylum hotels on fire, cannot stand as those who have served prison sentences of over a year are banned from becoming MPs.
