Andrea Jenkyns — a dyed-in-the-wool Brexiteer and one of the most vocal supporters of Boris Johnson as his government collapsed in 2022 — will stand to be mayor of Greater Lincolnshire in May.Tolga Akmen/EPA-EFE

Nigel Farage bags another Tory defector – POLITICO

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LONDON — Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party unveiled its newest addition Thursday: a Boris Johnson-loving former Conservative MP who hopes to bag a key mayoralty later this year.

Andrea Jenkyns — a dyed-in-the-wool Brexiteer and one of the most vocal supporters of Johnson as his government collapsed in 2022 — will stand to be mayor of Greater Lincolnshire in May.

The move was announced at a press conference in London Thursday as Reform UK, the populist, anti-immigration challenger party which ran second to Labour in several seats at July’s general election, said it had passed 100,000 paying members for the first time.