A factual record of convictions, formal reprimands, suspensions, resignations and reported allegations.
Every entry says what is proven, what is disputed and what happened next.
Primary source Official analysis News reporting
The national record
MPs and former MPs with questions to answer
This is not a list of everyone who has said something controversial. It is limited to cases with a
conviction, formal finding, party action or a significant public correction.
Former Reform MPCriminal conviction
James McMurdock
Elected for South Basildon and East Thurrock in 2024; left Reform in 2025
Court records showed that McMurdock was convicted of assaulting his then girlfriend in 2006
after kicking her repeatedly. He received 21 days' detention. Reform declined to suspend him
when the full court record emerged.
Important update
He later left Reform amid separate questions over Covid loans. The Parliamentary Standards
Commissioner subsequently cleared him of wrongdoing on the register-of-interests complaint.
That finding did not concern the assault conviction.
Pochin was formally reprimanded as a magistrate in 2018 after the judicial conduct body found
that she used her judicial position to influence colleagues politically and breached
confidentiality.
In October 2025 she apologised after saying that adverts featuring black and Asian people “drive
me mad”. She said her wording was poor and that she intended to criticise advertising industry
diversity policies. Farage called the comments “wrong and ugly” but did not remove the whip.
Elected for Great Yarmouth in 2024; suspended by Reform in March 2025
Reform suspended Lowe after staff complaints alleging bullying and derogatory remarks about
women, and separately reported alleged threats against the party chair to police. Lowe denied
the allegations and said they were politically motivated.
No criminal charge
In May 2025 prosecutors said there was insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of
conviction over the alleged threats. A separate parliamentary workplace investigation was
still being contested in 2026. He is no longer a Reform MP.
Reform has not lost “most” of its new councillors. It won 1,453 seats on 7 May 2026. Nine
resignations were reported within the following fortnight, while other councillors were suspended
or had the whip removed. The speed and nature of the cases raise a vetting question; they do not
erase the scale of the election result.
Resigned
Stuart Prior
Essex and Rochford
Resigned days after election and had his membership revoked after alleged posts praised
white supremacy, dehumanised Muslims and appeared to celebrate the rape of a Sikh woman.
Response: Prior denied making the comments or being racist.
Reform said he resigned for personal reasons.
Whip resigned
Jay Leslie Cooper
Sefton
Reported posts attributed to Cooper called the Holocaust a hoax. Reform said he resigned the
party whip and that his membership was revoked.
Response: The Guardian reported that it had approached him
for comment.
Suspended
Ben Rowe
Plymouth
Suspended pending investigation after alleged posts urged rioters to remove a mosque and
used antisemitic and dehumanising language about immigrants.
Status: Allegations reported; party investigation pending
at the time of publication.
Under scrutiny
Derek Bullock
Bolton
Previously disowned as a Conservative candidate after an image appeared to show a racial
slur and call for people of Pakistani heritage to be shot. Further alleged posts surfaced
after his 2026 Reform election.
Response: Bullock said the image was fake. Reform said he
reported the resurfaced material to police.
Under scrutiny
Nathaniel Menday
Sheffield
Alleged posts described him as an ethno-nationalist, promoted white-supremacist symbols and
praised the designers of a Nazi-era stadium as “real visionaries”.
Status: The Guardian reported that it approached both
Menday and Reform for comment.
Trade unions reject Reform's pitch to organised labour
Union leaders pointed to Reform's opposition to sick-pay changes, guaranteed hours and
fire-and-rehire protections. Their statements are political criticism; the underlying
rights can be checked in the 2025 Act.
Reform reports £9.2m in donations in the first quarter of 2026
Reporting based on Electoral Commission returns says £7m came from two cryptocurrency
billionaires. Donation totals and donor identities can be checked in the Commission's
searchable records.
Farage's outside interests remain part of the public record
The Parliamentary Register records paid media work, speaking and other financial interests.
Use the live register rather than repeating a salary figure that may later change.
Reform pledges to repeal worker and renter protections
Richard Tice said a Reform government would repeal both the Employment Rights Act and
Renters' Rights Act. The proposal includes reversing restrictions on no-fault eviction and
new employment safeguards.
A Department of Health and Social Care estimate put the potential cost of Reform's proposed
20% private-health tax relief at £1.7bn. This was released by a Labour minister and should
be read as a government estimate in a political argument, not a settled audit.
After campaigning on very large tax cuts in 2024, Farage said poor public finances meant tax
relief would need to follow spending reductions. It was a significant change in emphasis
from the “Contract”.
Climate adviser estimates net zero at 0.2% of GDP a year
The Climate Change Committee's Seventh Carbon Budget estimates average annual net costs of
around 0.2% of GDP, with future savings and less exposure to fossil-fuel price shocks. This
directly challenges Reform's presentation of net zero only as a cost.
IFS says the 2024 costings miss by tens of billions
The Institute for Fiscal Studies assessed Reform's package of tax cuts, spending increases
and claimed savings and concluded the figures did not add up. This criticism applies to the
2024 Contract, not automatically to every later Reform policy.
We prioritise Reform's own publications, legislation, public registers and statutory bodies. News
reports are used for speeches and announcements that have no permanent official transcript.
When a number is an estimate, it is called an estimate. When a source is partisan, that context is
stated. When policy changes, this page should change too.