Reform UK responds to reports Makerfield candidate didn’t vote for Brexit

WorldPolitics
26 May 2026 • 11:40 PM MYT
The Independent
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Reform UK responds to reports Makerfield candidate didn’t vote for Brexit

  • Robert Kenyon, Reform UK’s Makerfield by-election candidate, may have voted Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum, newly unearthed online posts suggest.
  • The now-deleted 2019 posts, from an account linked to Mr Kenyon, appeared to deny that he voted Leave.
  • However, the account said in a post that the EU’s subsequent treatment of the UK made him “glad we voted out”.
  • The user also suggested he would join the EU “tomorrow” if it were “stripped right back to what it was set up for”.
  • A Reform UK spokesperson said that Mr Kenyon “voted Leave in 2016 and is a proud Brexiteer.”

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