Joanne Woodhouse and Henry Godwin live at opposite ends of England and used to sit on opposite sides of the political fence — until both decamped to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party.

Woodhouse, a one-time Labour voter in northwest England, and Godwin, a former Tory (Conservative) based near London, were among those at the hard-right party’s annual conference Saturday, as it celebrated its surging popularity.

The middle-aged pair appeared typical examples of anti-immigration Reform’s ability to draw disaffected voters from both its right-wing Conservative rival and centre-left Labour, as it builds on an unprecedented performance in local elections in May.

“I want to see a big change,” Woodhouse, an independent local elected official in Merseyside who joined Reform two months ago, told AFP

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